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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The Welton Shipwreck - A Fire in a Field of Snow (2021)

Two artists from UK, Stu Head a.k.a. Stooj and John Culkin a.k.a. jculkin, make up The Welton Shipwreck, a lo-fi, electronically-infused project that strikes with awe with their ability to create catchy tunes like those on the debut album called A Fire in a Field of Snow.

They call themselves the "purveyors of fine psychedelic folk-rock" and indeed, the amount of psychedelia in their music is what strikes most. It's clear that the project does not aim for perfect quality of the sound but it's very much not important (also, it may be because the album was recorded online between Scotland and Yorkshire). This music is all about melodies and catchiness without being pop-like lazy. They are curious and not afraid to explore, the choruses they create consist of many layers of sounds and vocals and they are made so it works together as a whole.

Already Unspent High, the album's first track after intro, shows that. The chorus here is simple and short but it's looped in such a mesmerizing way that it just stays in the head. Even in the calmer ballads, there's constant buzz in the backgrounds that makes the compositions full of life and energy. That's some psychedelic vibes I like.

A Fire in a Field of Snow costs 7 GBP.

Check: Unspent High

Country: UK

Genre: psychedelic indie rock

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