Year of No Light is a group that takes their influences and expands them into a sound and feeling they can be proud to call their own. Take the almost religious radiance of Jesu and the cinematic atmosphere of Envy, add the backbone of thick and sludgy riffing à la early Pelican or Capricorns, throw in a dash of the experimental ambient elements of Rosetta and Overmars and the transcendently poetic dual-guitar harmonies of Impure Wilhelmina and Mouth of the Architect, and you have the recipe for something truly special.