Fuzzy Lights announce new album ‘Burials’ out 2nd July and share first single, “Maiden’s Call”
Fuzzy Lights
announce new album
Burials
out 2nd July on Meadows
Watch the video for thehaunting first single,
“Maiden’s Call”
Photo Credit: Josie Harries. “As hazily atmospheric as mist rolling across their native Cambridgeshire fenland.” MOJO Underground Album of the Month“a work that sweetly lulls the listener with delicate folk numbers before ambushing them with surging orchestral noise.” Uncut“A distinctive musical world filled with genuine, untethered inspiration and delicate brilliance.” TLOBF
After a hiatus of over eight years Fuzzy Lights, are making a welcome return with their new album, Burials – the follow-up to their critically acclaimed album, Rule of Twelfths, and the fourth album from the Cambridge-based post-folk collective. Their sound has been stripped back to its component parts, deconstructed and rebuilt under less obvious influences. There’s a bedrock of folk-rock – predecessors like Trees and Fairport Convention – which is built upon through multiple layers, from the stillness of Talk Talk to the orchestral chaos of Godspeed You! Black Emperor.
With Burials, Fuzzy Lights have cultivated these sounds and influences into something new and fresh that distances the album from the rest of the folk-rock crowd.Today they release the first single “Maiden’s Call” which premiered on Folk Radio who descrbed it as “a dramatic cathartic fuzz jam that’s more in the territory of Dirty Three meets Kikagaku Moyo/幾何学模様 and the drone-worshipping blissed-out territory of Godspeed You! Black Emperor.”
Watch/share the video for “Maiden’s Call”
The most striking element of the songs on this album is how intimate they are. Lyricist, Rachel Watkins has revealed a lot about herself on this record, which have been written from a personal perspective.
Raw experiences have been distilled into each piece, her translucent vocals often betraying the content of the songs themselves.“Maiden’s Call is a song about loss.”
Rachel reflects. “It was written shortly after I had a miscarriage and documents the time where you are attempting to come to terms with that loss. It also reflects upon the feeling of connection I found to the many women who have lived these moments in their own lives and the gratitude I felt for that relationship.”On the video she says, “We wanted to represent the theme of the song in a way that was not too overt, mixing together elements of ritual and tradition that are echoed in the lyrics. Here we are imagining a transition from childhood to adulthood that is tied to the earth, with the use of chalk face paint and the deer’s antlers emphasising this connection. We had the extra challenge of creating a video during lockdown, so this became a family effort with our son happy to play a starring role.”
As scenarios, paths, and outcomes shift around us, Burials’ amalgam of glowering, intense instrumentation, timeless melody, and revealing lyricism carves a very particular path through the world. This is music that tears us away from the everyday, not just as a form of escapism, but as a means of self-reflection on hardship and the strategies we develop to overcome it. It is the band’s rawest yet most accomplished statement to date. Fuzzy Lights are:Rachel Watkins – violin & vocalsXavier Watkins – guitar & electronicsChris Rogers – guitarDaniel Carney – bass Mark Blay – drums
Album artwork (photo by Jamie Cameron)