Blog: The Line Of Best Fit

Shield Your Eyes ' Stef Ketteringham is, I'm pretty sure, the best guitarist in the country. He is certainly amongst the most adventurous, having all but invented an entirely new way of playing - half doleful finger-picking, half furiously distorted slide. 'Larkspur' is taken from the band's forthcoming Volume 4 , and sees Ketteringham in characteristically shizophrenic form - oscillating between screeching and warmth. At some points it approaches lighters-in-the-air trad rock (but much, much better than that sounds); at others it is buried in warped harmonics and time signature changes. The track is also [...]

• shield your eyes - larkspur (volume 4)