Fuzz Lightyear

Come Play With Me have announced the third release from their current series of singles, showcasing incredible emerging talent from the West Yorkshire region. The acclaimed record label and development organisation’s latest offering sees avid noise grunge trio Fuzz Lightyear deliver their single ‘Carlton Hill’. 

Crashing into Leeds’ famed DIY scene in 2019, Fuzz Lightyear have paved their own way in the West Yorkshire city with their uncompromising brand of self-described ‘noise grunge’. Originating in the bedrooms and dingy Hyde Park basements that have spawned many of the city's greatest bands over the years, the trio quickly gained momentum, leading them onto line-ups at Leeds’ venues including Belgrave Music Hall and Brudenell Social Club. With dogged focus on their live show, Fuzz Lightyear have merged into a relentless, noisier beast, playing shows with the likes of Spectres, Jaws The Shark, Shakamoto Investigation and sets  at festivals including Liverpool Sound City. 

New self-produced single ‘Carlton Hill’ see’s vocalist Ben Parry unleash a roar of captivating anguish, lusting after adolescence and wading through the complexities of love - each thought passionately conveyed with trademark yelling vocal expression. After a bass interlude paired with a groan and rambled muttering, the sound transcends into promising shoegaze soundscapes as they break away from their natural grunge state, further exploring the sounds the trio are capable of conjuring together.

October 2020, saw Fuzz Lightyear invited to Leeds DIY hub Mabgate Bleach to record an immersive live session which premiered in January.  Soon after, the band began working with Leeds producer Alex Greaves (bdrmm, Working Mens Club, Pulled Apart By Horses) to release their previous single, ‘Berlin, 1885’ which hails fierce resilience and international solidarity. Their efforts have earned them playlisting from Amazing Radio, Hard of Hearing and Bruiser FM. With an ever-growing crowd of admirers, local tastemaker and BBC Introducing WY host Emily Pilbeam recently invited the trio in for a BBC Introducing live session. 

Come Play With Me’s much-celebrated series of singles releases has been running for several years and has previously featured a wide array of incredible artists including Harkin, Team Picture, Treeboy & Arc, Talkboy, Fizzy Blood and many more. Other supported artists in the series include Adult DVD, Bad Idea, Josephine Sillars, Mollie Coddled, and Dirty Freud.  

Come Play With Me is a Leeds based development organisation, record label and magazine first launched as a singles club in 2015. Since its inception the label have supported a huge number of artists from the region as well releasing over 30 releases on vinyl for Yorkshire-based artists including recent compilations ‘Boundless’ (a call out for music from creatives of colour) and ‘Side by Side’ (showcasing some of the best new music from women, people of marginalised genders and LGBTQIA+ artists). CPWM are also responsible for a number of events including LGBTQ The Music & HERFest.

Ben Parry (vocals, guitar) on ‘Carlton Hill’:

“Carlton Hill is about those little moments from nights out, the gasps in memory that you use to romanticise your adolescence, the 7AM walks home, and the joggers that pass you by as you stumble into your flat. It’s about the people that mean so much to you at one time and then live on only as memories and Instagram posts. It’s about that youthful feeling of being able to live for that never-ending conscious present, with no worry for the morning or the days or weeks that come afterwards.”

Press for Fuzz Lightyear: 

“This is a band who sound chaotic at first but a few listens in and you get a sense that it’s all well planned, especially when teamed up with the quiet eye of the storm moments.” - Backseat Mafia

“...Parry’s soul-rattling scream 3 minutes in; it’s also owed to Varun Govil’s danceable bass lines, serpent-like interweaving guitar lines and innovative yet disciplined tempo changes effortlessly executed by drummer Josh Taylor” - Drab Mag