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Adjust To The Light

by Fufanu

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1.
Will We Last 04:35
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2.
The Hours 04:31
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3.
Blinking 03:00
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4.
City Lights (In The Light of The Night demo) 05:03
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Fufanu follow up their Circus Life debut with an EP of brand new material. ‘Adjust to the Light’ is released as a 12” Vinyl and Digital Download via One Little Indian on Monday 29th June.

Molten opener Will We Last - full of clangorous, metallic guitars and syncopated bass - fizzes with non-specific dread (“I've been deaf in the mornings/ Since a late night in June”) and prefaces three more tracks of circumspect post-punk and glassy existential contemplation. The mood is pulled into softer focus by The Hours’ pulsing synth lines, before the stark isolation of City Lights draws a curtain over proceedings. By comparison, it is perhaps Blinking’s attitude of playfulness that most straightforwardly reflects the wit, boldness and confidence of the band right now.

In the space of one week last November Fufanu became the most talked about new band of Iceland Airwaves, made their UK live debut at JaJaJa Festival and supported Damon Albarn at the Albert Hall - winning the approval of Brian Eno into the bargain. January saw the band perform crushing sets at Eurosonic before a return to the UK supporting The Vaccines on their sold out nationwide tour during March/ April - also slipping in a memorable two-night stand with Bo Ningen at Hoxton Bar & Grill.

Formerly operating as techno/ electronic duo, Captain Fufanu, with the addition of live instrumentation – and the band name shortened to a more economical Fufanu (“the Captain was left behind at a rave in Cologne”) – the Icelandic group began working up a dark, metronomic take on 70s and 80s European music. The rolling, hypnotic, seven minutes of debut single ‘Circus Life’ - primed early adopters at Rolling Stone (‘Disclosure attending Bela Lugosi's funeral’), Line of Best Fit (‘…like a mythical Ouroboros’) and JaJaJa (‘mesmerising’).

The band’s unusual origins go a long way to explaining how Fufanu have arrived at their exacting sound. Live, the mordant wit suggested by song titles like Plastic People and live opener Goodbye can shift into thrillingly cold malevolence, fronted by ‘slyph-like’ singer Kaktus Einarsson’s magnetic stage presence.

"It is an entirely new band, even though it feels the same," considers Kaktus. "There was no certain moment when we realized that this was our sound. We just liked what we were doing and kept experimenting. From [Roskilde Festival 2013] onward, the idea of a new sound for us was born — although leaving techno was not the outcome we imagined. We started to write new music with more live instruments, but still kept on using all of our synths and drum machines. It all happened really naturally."

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released June 29, 2015

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Fufanu Reykjavík, Iceland

Fufanu are a rock band from Reykjavik. "With much current pop eager to please, it’s thrilling to hear music played with such malevolence"

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