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Luis Dubuc, who started The Secret Handshake in 2004, began writing songs and compiling demos for a new album as soon as he finished One Full Year, eventually ending up with nearly 60 songs to weed through. Once he had selected the 10 strongest tracks, Dubuc sat down in his home studio to record in December of 2008. Instead of enlisting a producer, like on the last record, Dubuc played, programmed and recorded the entire album himself to ensure that his vision achieved reality. “I wanted to do this record and have it be 100 percent me,” he explains. “I didn’t want anyone else to have input. I wanted to just do it. No one could stop me from doing anything.”
My Name Up In Lights showcases an impassioned, enthusiastic musician who has found his voice and his inspiration. And for Dubuc, who tours with a live band to flesh out his electro pop sound onstage, that inspiration just happens to be largely drawn from movies like The Wizard and ‘90s radio hits like “Steal My Sunshine.” If anyone’s going to bring back ‘90s pop and legitimize it, it’s Dubuc. “I hope people see it for what it is and love it and appreciate it,” he says. “Sometimes people say their record was really hard to make because they were going through something, but this record was easy to make. It was all me and I didn’t have to try and do anything. I didn’t have to try and be something I’m not. It just came out. If anything, I just want people to appreciate it. It’s not a hard record to grasp. I made a record for people like me, for my fans.”