Fuzzy Lights - Fen Creatures (2025)

Out of many music projects that deserve more recognition, I feel like Fuzzy Lights occupies the number one spot in this line. I love the fuzzy and the lights in their music that can be only described as post-folk rock with beautiful songwriting.

I've covered their 2010 album that is one of my favourite releases ever, as well as their great comeback in 2021. Now (it's been already 4 years!), the Cambridge-based band is back again with their signature sound. The way they combine the noisy and rough-sounding guitars and the sweetest of vocals just speaks to me. It's like showing the dark and the bright side of music, of world, of life. 

There is something very British in their songwriting too, making me think about Piano Magic all the time. Maybe it's the similar level of nostalgia, but also not understanding what this nostalgic feeling comes from? I feel it especially well in my favourite track here, War Ditches with its military-like drums completing the picture painted in the song. I'm really glad that the English band came back for good it seems. Now I want to see them finally on stage!

Fen Creatures costs 8 EUR (7 GBP).

Check: War Ditches

Country: UK

Genre: post-folk rock

Fuzzy Lights - Burials (2021)

Fuzzy Lights - Twin Feathers (2010)

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Fuzzy Lights - Burials (2021)

I can't stress enough how important for me was the band's 2010 album Twin Feathers. It brought me into the world of atmospheric, post-rock-influenced post-folk and I love it until now. Finally, after over a decade since this one and 8 years after the last album, the British band released a new one and it brings the same kind of vibes I missed.

Their approach to music is very characteristic: on one hand it is clearly inspired by folk music with the inclusion of violins and the way they address folk mythology-like themes in the lyrics. On the other, the compositions are very much guitar-based and particularly noisy, this is some real post-rock meets post-folk situation. And the style hasn't changed over the years much - Rachel Watkins' delicate but also clear vocals, violins ' role (very familiar in Maiden's Call) and the torrential guitar noise that is so mesmerizing and unnerving at the same time.

The album is opened by the single Maiden's Call which makes an instant post-folk hit but is followed by noisy ten minutes of Songbird - a song that doesn't follow your typical song's construction but is pure and unrefined beauty. This may actually be the main difference between the old and the new sound of the band: it seems their music is noisier, the guitars are coarser and more rock-like. But it sounds so well, be it in the most lively songs like Under the Waves or the moody post-rock ballads. Also, let's mention the absolutely staggering cover art picture.

Burials costs 7 GBP.

Fuzzy Lights - Twin Feathers (2010) EN

Check: Maiden's Call

Country: UK

Genre: noisy post-folk

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Fuzzy Lights - Twin Feathers (2010) EN

Quite suddenly came autumn, and fog floating over lakes came too. We should celebrate the fact with the most autumnish music. And my most autumnish band is Fuzzy Lights - dream folk group from Cambridge with autumn smoke scented music.To believe their own description, the band includes five musician - Rachel playing shimmering lights, Xavier black lights, Dan low lights, Mark strobe lights and Chris a lighthouse.

But when listening to their akbum we can clearly hear violins, guitars (also the electric ones) and atmosphere provding drums. Fuzzy Light's music combines many genres, every one of which would justify mentioning them on this blog. The best way to get it is to listen to "Through Water" in which delicate folk quite suddenly becomes rough post-rock and comes back only to end up being a series of extremely distracting whispers. They describe their music as epic/melancholic, Drowned in Sound wrote that it's "a rare kind of quiet dignity". The truth lies in the middle. Just like the fallen trees and the two protagonists from "Fallen Trees".

"Twin Feathers" was published by Little Red Rabbit Records and you can have it for £ 3.

How about you? Do you like autumn?

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Fuzzy Lights - Twin Feathers (2010) PL

Nadciągnęła nagle jesień, a z nią mgły unoszące się nad jeziorami. Należy uczcić ten fakt najbardziej jesienną muzyką. A mój najbardziej jesienny zespół to Fuzzy Lights - dream folkowa ekipa z Cambridge z muzyką pachnącą jesiennym dymem. Jeśli wierzyć ich własnemu opisowi, zespół składa się z pięciorga muzyków, z których Rachel gra na mieniących się światłach, Xavier na czarnych, Dan na ciemnych pasemkach (low lights), Mark na światłach stroboskopowych a Chris na latarni morskiej.

Tymczasem na płycie wyraźnie słychać skrzypce, które grają pierwsze skrzypce oraz gitary (również elektryczne) i dodającą atmosfery perkusję. I dzwonki. Muzyka Fuzzy Lights łączy wiele gatunków, z których każdy z osobna dałby zespołowi przepustkę do tego bloga. Najwspanialej słychać to we "Through Water", gdzie delikatny folk całkiem nagle przechodzi w chropowaty post-rock i wraca z powrotem by zakończyć się wyjątkowo niepokojącymi szeptami. Na swoim FB określili swoją muzykę jako epicko melancholijna, Drowned in Sound określił ich jako "rzadki przypadek cichej dostojeństwa". Prawda leży pośrodku. Tak jak powalone drzewa i dwójka bohaterów "Fallen Trees".

"Twin Feathers" wydany został przez Little Red Rabbit Records i jest do nabycia za 15 zł (3 GBP).

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