One of the unintentionals was Lanterns On The Lake who played at the slightly tedious Bedlam alongside Jay Jay Pistolet, Jose Vanders and Tom Williams. The six piece band from Newcastle-upon-Tyne have mastered an eerily deep form of ambient music that pinpoints your heart flawlessly and shoots arrows of songs straight to your centre.
Lyricist and vocalist (amongst other components) Hazel Wilde has an incandescent voice that is paired simplistically with mandolins, glockenspiels, pianos and even a bowed guitar.
Their music is influenced by such greats as Sigur Ros and Arcade Fire and it shows. Due to their subtle use of some synths and keyboards each of the tracks has a haunting background atmosphere which is then taken over by the foregrounding of the other cacophony of instruments, deepening their whole repetoire beautifully, it's like the metaphor "still waters run deep", it may sound simple on first listen but as you press the skip back button more and more other instruments reveal themselves until you finally have them in their sublime entirity.
Lanterns On The Lake are a very original band, and thinking back they obviously put on an infectious live show, as I was determined to remember their name and find out more afterwards.
They have an EP out towards the end of July entitled "The Starlight EP" which consists of four songs. In Starlight is a dreamy slice of glocked up gorgeousness likely to make a fair few of you fall head over heels with anyone who may be there listening with you. First track My Shield spirals and cradles you away into the deepest depths of your heart and is definitely a sleep song for anyone who wants one.
Listen to Under Stars here.
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