Growing Down with Illiterate Light

“The limitations of our set-up give us a certain edge,” says Jake Cochran, the drummer and one half of Illiterate Light, a Harrisonburg duo that is taking its high-energy two-man live show and hummable tunes beyond regional acclaim. “I think people can feel it.”

Produced at Montrose Studios in Richmond with engineer Adrian Olsen and The Head and The Heart’s Charlie Glenn, Illiterate Light’s striking new album is filled with sugary, Classic rock-influenced gems. And it’s getting notice. National Public Radio named the Light’s anthemic “Better Than I Used To,” which was released as an advance single, as one of its “Ten Hot Summer Songs” for 2018.

Find out more about illiterate Light. Read the December 2018 installment of my Virginia Living Magazine music column by taking yourself right over here.

And for more on Illiterate Light -- yes, they were named after the Wilco lyric -- you can two-step it here.

(Photo by the mighty Joey Wharton)