The Fat Angel Sings

Album ‘Lights’ by The Fauns are a dream pop/shoegaze band that formed in 2007 in Bristol, England. They released their self-titled debut album in 2009. They followed this up with a second album Lights.

The Fauns sophomore album “Lights” through Invada Records came out December 2013. The Bristolian five piece have just finished touring with French synthwave act College on his rare UK live dates last month-, having previously played alongside the likes of The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Anika, The Telescopes, Savages and Ulrich Schnauss in the past couple of years Lights is the successor to The Fauns’ self-titled debut album (put out through their own Laser Ghost Recordings label, which, released in 2009 with no promotional muscle, went on to pick up radio support from 6Music’s Steve Lamacq and shift over five thousand copies purely by word of mouth. The organic success of The Fauns also garnered a valuable champion of the band in the form of Hollywood soundtrack composer Clint Mansell, (Moon, Black Swan, Requiem For A Dream) who remixed the album cut Fragile for a limited edition Record Store Day 12 , all 1000 copies of which sold out in under a day. Produced by the band’s own Michael Savage and engineered by well-respected Bristol figures Jim Barr and Tim Allen, Lights pits the barely-there vocals of front-woman Alison Garner (Hyetal) against guitar work which is by alternate turns both all-consuming and intimate. Whilst the shoegaze-indebted elements of the band’s sound still shimmer as brightly as they did on The Fauns, “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 , resonating with the atmospheric tendencies of the XX.