Trick Of The Light

Wooden Arms are a self-diagnosed “genre-fluid” quintet from Norwich who consist of Alex Carson (vocals / piano), Alex MacKenzie (drums / bass), Jeff Smith (guitar / trumpet), Connie Chatwin (violin) and Fifi Homan (cello). Those flowing genres are alternative, classical and trip-hop music, as you might expect from a string-enriched collective emboldened by the rhythmic sensibilities of Portishead carefully blended with the ethereal melodies of Sigur Ros. Trick Of The Light is Wooden Arms’ second album and appears an eerily precise three years since the 06.10.14 release of the Wooden Arms Tide debut. And ‘eerie’ is very much the word that you heard, as this is a band who write broodingly cryptic singles called Burial which are influenced by Edgar Allan Poe.