Arctic Circle presents Fuzzy Lights

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Twin Feathers', the second album by Fuzzy Lights, was named Mojo's 'Underground Album of the Month' upon release in 2010. Weaving together elements of pastoral psych-folk and noise-rock, it also found favour with Artrocker, Clash and Uncut, the latter reckoning that "If they were American, the buzz would be huge already". It also led to the band being invited to play End of the Road Festival the same year and much radio play from Elbow's Guy Garvey, Huw Stephens and Mark Radcliffe.

The band's new album, 'Rule of Twelfths' (released earlier this year via Little Red Rabbit Records), is a softer and dreamier collection of songs, drawing solace from fragile beauty rather than expelling noise-outs. Several songs also feature string arrangements which add a layer of bucolic beauty to songs like 'Second Skin' and 'Deep River', perhaps recalling 'Bryter Layter'-period Nick Drake. It is an album which carries with it the ghosts of pop songs past and is their most direct statement yet.

For this special show, Fuzzy Lights will perform songs from both 'Twin Feathers' and 'Rule Of Twelfths' with a full string quartet in the fabulous setting of St Pancras Old Church.

Haiku Salut are a instrumental trio of girls from the Derbyshire Dales that use accordions, ukeleles, glockenspiels, pianos, loopery and laptopery to create a hybrid of classical music, minimalist IDM electronica, and baroque miniatures. If Sigur Ros shared a cottage in Dovedale, they might just sound as magical as this.

Emma is an unstoppable and multi-instrumental collaborator. As well as being a full time musician with the multi-tentacled psych-folk behemoth Sons of Noel and Adrian and getting crowds dancing to the rowdy stamp-along anthems of The Mariner's Children, she has found time to lend her voice, clarinet or accordion skills to everyone from Laura Marling to Broken Social Scene.

No wonder then that it has taken her so long to get round to concentrate on her own music. Chapter One showcases poignant songs based around her latest acquisition - the harp. Subtly accompanied by various members of Brighton's Willkommen Collective, her intricate harp playing and powerful vocals soars above her classic songwriting, which owes a debt to Bjork and Joni Mitchell as well as her friends and co-conspirators Rachael Dadd and Alessi's Ark.

£8 in adv/£10 on door

www.fuzzylights.com
www.haikusalut.com
www.emmagatrill.bandcamp.com