Light and Shade is the fourth studio album by Norwegian new wave band Fra Lippo Lippi.

It was recorded in Los Angeles, California and produced by Walter Becker of Steely Dan fame.

However, during this time, the US arm of Virgin Records dropped several artists off their roster – Fra Lippo Lippi being one of them.

[14] Eirik Mosveen of Beat characterized the album as "almost unbelieveably boring", with a passive and limp soundscape, "anonymous" songwriting and the vocals being a "monotonous, lifeless manifestation of nothing".

[15] Arvid Skancke-Knutsen [no] of Puls magazine stated that "Light and Shade' is lost in a no-man's land of toothlessness".