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Fuzzy Lights
Fuzzy Lights are a five piece band based in Cambridge led by husband and wife Xavier and Rachel Watkins. Combining both folk purity and psychedelic guitar noise, their reverb-soaked music found a dedicated following with the late-2008 release of debut album 'A Distant Voice'. After touring in the first half of 2009 and playing shows with the likes of Evangelista, Vetiver, Willard Grant Conspiracy and James Blackshaw, the band took the rest of the year out to work on new material. The first fruits of those sessions are released in June as the 'Helm' EP. The highly-anticipated second album 'Twin Feathers' follows in August.
Anna Kashfi
Anna Kashfi play dreamy, melancholic music that crackles with the memories of past mistakes, missed opportunities and the emotional games played by lovers in battle. Their new album ‘Survival' focusses on a sense of characters being vulnerable to the whims of the world and circumstance, of the thin-line between existing and being wiped-out forever and features a duet, of sorts, with Robert Fisher of kindred spirits Willard Grant Conspiracy. Anna Kashfi have received airplay from Radcliffe and Maconie (Radio 2), Gideon Coe (6Music), Elbow's Guy Garvey (XFM), John Peel and have played sessions for Marc Riley (6Music) and ALL FM.
Photo by Dan D'Giovanni
Last Harbour
Based in Manchester, Last Harbour are an expansive collective featuring an array of classical instrumentation as well as guitar, bass and drums. Their new album ‘Volo' is set for release in February 2010 and was co-produced by the band and Richard Formby (Wild Beasts, Herman Dune, Spacemen 3, Dakota Suite). From dusty laments to doom-filled rock, from starkly beautiful duets to drifting clouds of looped noise, there's always an intensity that strikes hard. It's a highly original record featuring the band's strongest songs and most creative arrangements of their career to date.
Lazarus Clamp
Lazarus Clamp have been making music under this name for 15 years. ‘Against entitlement' (LRR014) is their 5th long-player, and their first for Little Red Rabbit. They have been described in a Drowned in Sound review as one of the “undiscovered, roughcut gems of British independent music.” They have played at SXSW, and at Summer Sundae, and with Giant Sand, David Grubbs, Songs:Ohia, Laura Cantrell, Herman Dune, and many others. The feel of the music is intimate, dynamic, and full of counter-intuitive little surprises. The influences of North American post-punk bands tangle with folk sensibilities from both sides of the Atlantic and a very English low-key commitment to articulate songwriting.
Samson and Delilah
Sam Lench and Anna Zweck are partners in life as well as in song and this is their debut album under their creative nom de plume Samson & Delilah. Influenced by stories and traditions new and old, the duo write songs of love and longing, truth and deceit, beauty and decay. The album tells the story not of their relationship per se but rather of where their lives intertwine. Lench has a background in indie-rock whilst Zweck is classically trained and this difference comes together to lend the album a rare breadth of style. From transcendental drone-folk and room-silencing a capella to uplifting songs of love across distance, 'Samson & Delilah' (LRR013) locates the exact point where Lench and Zweck's unspoken truths find a voice.
Photo by Stephanie Ablett
Kalbakken
Formed in 2005 and based in Manchester, Kalbakken are half Norwegian sibling duo Kirsty & David Birchall Nyhuus. They have a background in punk and improv styles but, as Kalbakken, they play their own readings of Scandinavian folk melodies, building new arrangements around old tunes. Their debut album 'Then I Saw Summer & Sun On The Earth' (LRR011) is a pure, raw distillation of the songs Kirsty and David uncovered in Oslo's library archives. They are fearless performers, unselfconscious and willing to abandon themselves to their source material.
Photo by Sam Easterby-Smith
Crazy Man Michael
Named after the Fairport Convention song, Crazy Man Michael takes such classic English narrative songwriting as a touchstone and adds a literate, romantic edge that encompasses folk traditions from Bert Jansch to Iron & Wine. Using almost entirely acoustic instrumentation, his debut album 'The Green Light' (LRR009) loosely takes F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' as its emotional inspiration. It is intelligent, subtly yet openly political and unafraid to be emotionally raw; searching, sensitive, weather-beaten but always hopeful. In short, a very special record.