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Fanfarlo

Rooms Filled With Light

Can we call this a comeback album? Fanfarlo’s debut Reservoir dropped in 2009 and slowly gathered a head of steam that saw it pop up in many an end of year round up. But these days it seems that if you don’t churn out an album every 12 months then you’re dead or consigned to the wilderness. Whichever wilderness Fanfarlo have been hanging out in, they've made one of those rare discs that pulls off just the right degree of sophomore progression and invention without utterly turning its back on its well-loved predecessor.

Reservoir was a multi-layered affair taking its cue from the then Canadian music scene with prominent strings and all manner of other orchestration thrown at it. The influences on this new album see more of a leap, with this London-based group carving themselves out as the next Yeasayer or Talking Heads. It’s hardly surprising with producer Ben Allen (Animal Collective, Deerhunter) on board.

Rooms Filled With Light is, by the band’s own admission, more of an album of light and dark contrasts. The sonic aperture is wide open with more modern and experimental textures in comparison to Reservoir’s organically quirky strings. The wait between the two albums appears to have resulted in a much weirder, more abstract experience, but it's no less brilliant for it.

Tracklist

• Replicate
  Deconstruction
  Lenslife
  Shiny Things
  Tunguska
  Everything Turns
  Tightrope
  Feathers
  Bones
  Dig
  A Flood
  Everything Resolves