ALBUMs

Rachel Watkins, Xavier Watkins, Chris Rodgers, Daniel Carney and Mark Blay are Fuzzy Lights. Their third album released on 04 February is called ‘Rule of Twelfths’ and it is majestic.

This record is much more about the honey dripped vocals of Rachel Watkins than previous records. The opener ‘Summer’s Tide’ is a prime example of this, where she excels from the quiet introduction to soaring vocals over the band at full pelt. A quite stunning song.

The band are led by the guitar of Xavier Watkins and have a cinematic sound which, gets supplemented by Rachel’s string arrangements throughout. ‘Blind’ is an epic song, shame the four minutes of it’s length doesn’t stretch to eight.

‘Second Skin’ with delightful acoustic guitar, could just be, the gentlest song you will hear this year. The production of the record is lovely, all instruments are crystal clear; the low hum of the bass on ‘Hallsands’ from Dan Carney is very sweet indeed. 

Four songs later and the album end is on an ambient note on ‘Coming Home’. A sign of the direction for album number Four or a potential collaboration with fellow Cambridge outfit Hollow Mountain?

'Rule of Twelfths’ deserves the attention of your ears and you can obtain it from the band’s website or bandcamp page.

Pete

10/11

1.Summer's Tide 03:27

2.The Hour 03:39

3.Blind 04:00

4.Second Skin 05:22

5.Hallsands 02:10

6.Restless 04:48

7.Fever Dreams 03:48

8.Deep River 04:46

9.Coming Home 05:46