Blog: Wine, Women And Song

A rather wonderful debut album by Cambridge-based group Fuzzy Lights, A Distant Voice combines deft instrumental composition with haunting songwriting, featuring an especially electrifying violin presence that goes way beyond the call of duty, bringing to mind the wildly expressive bowing of Warren Ellis, able to articulate plaintive, lyrical melodies one moment and transform into a wild, untethered vehicle for free expression the next. The songwriting (particularly when there's a vocal in the mix) is far from conventional, but the arrangements are enormously beautiful, as best exemplified by the curious rustic space-rock of 'Safe Place'. "As well as touring [...]