With percussion ricocheting amongst the speakers, Pram's sixth album, The Museum of Imaginary Animals presents itself as a curious entity. Although the songs within were still more cohesive than later efforts, the Birmingham group drifted away from their dream-pop leanings, offering up avant-garde pieces that brought Rosie Cuckson's eerie and distant vocals to the fore. Signifying that was The

The Owl Service are a folk super-group with credentials so old-school they could have been frozen in the seventies, only to be thawed out when the world was in great peril. Their union has assembled some of the leading lights in the UK Folk scene as one non-moss gathering finely honed stone of trad brilliance. The View From A Hill forms part of their Pattern Beneath The Plough project and sees them taking on traditional folk songs in an extremely traditional way. Their style is far more Steeleye Span or Fairport Convention than Mumford [...]
I have already used up my "lazy Sunday" theme post, so this means it is officially the second full week of the new blog!!!! Huzzah! A little background on this post...I was working on a "Guide to Slowcoustic" as some people are still a bit lost on the concept of made up words and musical genres. This hasn't been launched on the Slowcoustic site yet, but it will make it up eventually, but in putting it together I came across a certain track that has a few artists providing their talents to it. The [...]

the owl service child ballad n°49 (or the rolling of the stones) 2008 benjamin wetherill so dark the night 2008 (française version) J'ai lu la phrase. Elle commençait "le jour déclinait..." J'ai levé la tête, regardé par la fenêtre et constaté que, oui, s'évanouissant en un mouvement lent, le [...]
well this is quite the line-up. quite the choice selection of cured meats and smoked cheeses indeed. all the noise, danish wind instruments, distortion, electronickery, kosmische musik and occasional folkiness you can shake a big bloody black-clad stick at. following all tomorrows parties slow descent into some incestuous groundhog day love-in (the portishead one excepted) and the apparent [...]