{"id":2448315,"date":"2019-09-04T01:14:38","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T07:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=879746"},"modified":"2019-09-04T01:14:38","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T07:14:38","slug":"hear-bon-iver-and-kanye-west-join-francis-and-the-lights-on-take-me-to-the-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/hear-bon-iver-and-kanye-west-join-francis-and-the-lights-on-take-me-to-the-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Bon Iver and Kanye West Join Francis and the Lights on \u2018Take Me to the Light\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/shutterstock_10364341r.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/francis-and-the-lights\/\" id=\"auto-tag_francis-and-the-lights\" data-tag=\"francis-and-the-lights\">Francis and the Lights<\/a> had dropped a new song, \u201cTake Me to the Light,\u201d featuring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/bon-iver\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bon-iver\" data-tag=\"bon-iver\">Bon Iver<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/kanye-west\/\" id=\"auto-tag_kanye-west\" data-tag=\"kanye-west\">Kanye West<\/a>. Band frontman Francis&nbsp;Farewell&nbsp;Starlite produced the track alongside West, BJ Burton, Benny Blanco, Cashmere Cat, Jeff Bhasker and Noah Goldstein, and used contributions from Pulitzer Prize winning musician Caroline Shaw in the composition.<\/p>\n<p>The shimmering, atmospheric synth-pop number features layers of sound alongside Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon\u2019s familiar croon. West chimes in as a heavier beat comes in: \u201cAnd you still take me to the light\/ Every time\/ You still take me to the light\/ Every time\/ And the stars will align\/ You ain\u2019t lying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Francis and the Lights previously collaborated with Bon Iver and West on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/watch-kanye-west-bon-iver-in-francis-and-the-lights-new-friends-video-170399\/\">\u201cFriends,\u201d<\/a> a track off 2016\u2019s <em>Farewell, Starlite!<\/em>. Francis and the Lights has also worked with West on several of his albums, including 2018\u2019s <em>ye<\/em>.&nbsp;\u201cTake Me to the Light\u201d will appear on Francis and the Lights\u2019 upcoming third album of the same name. Last month the musician <a href=\"https:\/\/francisandthelights.com\/post\/187013801424\/my-next-album-is-called-take-me-to-the-light\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">confirmed the title<\/a> of the album in a one-line news post, but hasn\u2019t provided any further details on the release.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Francis and the Lights teamed up with Banks for tortured love song <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/banks-francis-and-the-lights-look-what-youre-doing-to-me-846672\/\">\u201cLook What You\u2019re Doing to Me,\u201d<\/a> which appeared on the singer\u2019s album <em>III<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/bon-iver-kanye-west-francis-and-the-lights-take-me-to-the-light-879746\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francis and the Lights had dropped a new song, \u201cTake Me to the Light,\u201d featuring Bon Iver and Kanye West. Band frontman Francis&nbsp;Farewell&nbsp;Starlite produced the track alongside West, BJ Burton, Benny Blanco, Cashmere Cat, Jeff Bhasker and Noah Goldstein, and used contributions from Pulitzer Prize winning musician Caroline Shaw in the composition. The shimmering, atmospheric [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2448315","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 06:04:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2448315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}