Lights are awkward buggers. They have a totally unGoogleable name, and it’s even a struggle to find their self-titled debut album on Amazon. Still, they make beautiful, claustrophobically uncomfortable music, and that's why you lot should like them.

More about them: they're a psychedelic foursome from Brooklyn, formed around the core of guitarist Sophia Knapp and drummer Linnea Vedder with the more recent additions of bassist Andy Macloud and wonderfully-named projectionist Wizard Smoke. Yep, that's Wizard Smoke. They're part of the ridiculously hip acid-folk scene over in New York, but they spike the layered psychedelia of acts like Espers and Vetiver with gut-level queasiness. Lights don’t make me think of a sunny rural folk festival at all but a grubby child stranded among the skyscrapers of New York, with nothing more than a home-made dulcimer to protect her from the whipping wind.

Hear the feverishly lovely At Midnight over at their myspace, pick up the band's tour dates while you're there, and then have a nose at this lovely music video for Rise Up. You'll be spooked and enchanted.