The first thing one notices about Novitza is the silence between the notes. Not the silence of a composer who has run out of ideas, nor the polite pause of a musician waiting for applause, but the active, pressurised silence of someone who has learned — through what one suspects has been considerable personal cost — that restraint is its own form of power. *From Darkness Unto Light*, released on the 8th of May via Animal Farm Music, is the work of a man who understands this implicitly, and who has built an entire emotional world from that understanding.