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Lights (Exclusive Digital Edition)

by The Fauns

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    Includes The Fauns "Record Store Day" release NEVER been available digitally. BONUS TRACKS include 'Fragile' - Clint Mansell remix and 'The Sun Is Cruising' - Redg Weeks Rework
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Point Zero 02:10
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Seven Hours 05:00
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Ease Down 03:08
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In Flames 03:15
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Nothing Ever 03:24
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Lights 03:58
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Rise 03:19
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4am 04:11
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With You 03:23
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Let's Go 03:11
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Lights is the successor to The Fauns‘ self-titled debut album released through their own Laser Ghost Recordings label in 2009. With no promotional muscle, they went on to pick up radio support from BBC 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.

Co-produced by well-respected Bristol figures Jim Barr and Tim Allen along-side the band’s own Michael Savage, Lights pits the barely-there vocals of front-woman Alison Garner 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.

Michael Savage’s exhaustive knowledge of film & sound-tracking permeates Lights; ‘Point Zero’ and ‘Rise’ are sequenced as ambient episodes in homage to the astral soundtracks of Moon and Solaris (created by band heroes Mansell and Cliff Martinez), whilst elsewhere a rather more overt nod is made to film scoring with the motor engine-sampling crescendo of the Tron-esque ‘Let’s Go’.

With an extensive major city European tour alongside French post-rockers Alcest (at the band’s personal invitation) already confirmed for early 2014. Supporting The Telescopes on two Europen tours they have played alongside the likes of The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, The Duruitti Column and Savages with headline dates to be announced later this year. Lights may well see the full realisation of the burgeoning success of The Fauns.

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released November 26, 2013

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The Fauns Bristol, UK

After a decade-long hiatus, Bristol-based shoegaze ensemble, The Fauns, have reemerged from their secret bunker with their first new music in ten years with new single "How Lost", which is out now via Invada.

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