From the moment you pick up this textured cover of muted browns & wonderful artwork, you can feel that a quality record is on the cards.
A seven piece folk band with a penchant for electronica & production whizzery. They’ve made a very nice soundtrack to a chillout room for a Morris Dancer’s rave. First track “Hanged” is a delicate melodic piece, “Woodcat” turns up the strange with lyrics about “..a guy who’s girlfriend does something wrong in the local village & for punishment gets turned into a hare, but he wants to find out what she did so that he can do it & be turned into a hare too… then they can be together”. Lewis Carroll-esque fables agogo.
“The wind up bird is a soothing abstract ballad. Track 5 - “stories” changes the tone with a welcome Aphex Twin/Warp records overtone in the beats & production. “Jenny again” is a delicate, intimate lovesong with acoustic guitars & gentle percussion underpinning a marvellously understated vocal. “Sweet William” is very immediate & haunting. One of the best on the album in my opinion. The album is very well produced throughout with a clear sense of space & depth, well layered guitars filling out the stereo field nicely, already well travelled by the percussion.
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