Seabuckthorn
The Silence Woke Me
Bookmaker (2012)
I don't listen to folk music that often--not enough 7/8 if you ask me. But when I do make exceptions to that rule, it's usually for a very strong artist, and UK based artist Seabuckthorn (né Andy Cartwright), especially on his new release The Silence Woke Me, is one such musician.His style of music blends folk acoustic guitars with elements of psychedelia to create a darker, stranger, and more foreign sound than you'd expect. The album sounds like walking down a long-forgotten wooded path at a little past midnight--you lost your watch, otherwise you'd know when--with nothing but a sputtering torch and reflections from the slowly fading moon to bring you light, trying to read yet another page of Grimm's fairy tales, only to be stopped by an unidentifiable rustle in the bush beside you--or was it your imagination?--and feeling the slow chill of the unknown trickle down your spine as the night grows inexplicably colder and a fresh wind puts out the last of your torch leaving you all alone oh so very alone with no one around but the ever growing rustling oh why is it LOUDER STILL andEditor's note: In the interest of brevity, we cut out … Read more
Ancient Wisdom
Deathlike
Prosthetic (2013)
A lot has been said about Ancient VVisdom, not all of it positive, and for many just letting the music … Read more
Dum Dum Girls
End Of Daze
Sub Pop (2012)
Ah the Dum Dum Girls… the Dum Dum Girls are in serious danger of transcending the shtick that the band … Read more
