Lights

Fauns' 2nd album sees release on Bristolian label Invada. Produced by the band's own Michael Savage, Lights pits the barely-there vocals of front-woman Alison Garner (Hyetal) against guitar work which is all-consuming and intimate. Whilst the shoegaze-indebted elements of the band's sound still shimmer, Lights finds them imbued with new purpose- see the instrumental squalls which punctuate album stand-out 'Seven Hours', or the interlocking guitar figures of '4AM'. Michael Savage's exhaustive knowledge of film & sound-tracking permeates Lights; 'Point Zero' and 'Rise' are sequenced as ambient episodes in whilst elsewhere a rather more overt nod is made to film scoring with the motor engine-sampling crescendo of 'Let's Go'.Vinyl: 180 gram, White vinyl