A new session from Cambridge experimentalists Fuzzy Lights, “Helm” is an engaging appointment with doom and funeralesque folk. Xavire and Rachel Watkins burn the midnight oil as they knot together electronics and live instruments into an echo laden affair, that seems to be part shoegaze, part ghostly mountain music, part perpelxing. In fact this EP was recorded in the dead of winter whilst camped out in a barn on a deserted hillside. That’s definitely informed their work, but through the weathered echoes, “Black Diamond” finally emerges as the closest they get to celtic folk. Chilling, yet simultaneously lovely.

MMM ½

By JA