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Light a Candle

Following the 2008 release of their EP Dia de Roda, Forro in the Dark began work on their second full-length album Light a Candle. Guest artists on the LP include Sabina Sciubba of Brazilian Girls who appears on the track Silence Is Golden and singer-songwriter Jesse Harris who provides vocals for the song Just Like Any Other Night. The album also features covers of forró classics like Saudades de Manezinho Araujo by Teo Azevedo and Forro de Dois Amigos by Edmilson do Pífano.

SFWeekly regarded the band as [pushing] the genre [of forró] even further, adding fuzzed-out guitar riffage, turntable scratchery, and breathy, honking saxand recorded live with only minimal overdubs, giving them a rushing vibrancythe band's tunes shudder and shake like an epileptic belly dancer.

In 2009, the band collaborated with singer-songwriter Brett Dennen for a live session recording made available on iTunes. Refosco was also announced as the percussionist for Thom Yorke's new live band Atoms for Peace (which also includes Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Joey Waronker of Beck and Nigel Godrich).