English Freak Folk has an entirely different quality to the American variety – often it strays into pastoral tweeness but the eerie sounds of Comus (yesterday’s post) show that there are pockets of weirdness hidden in the archives. Today I’ve been listening to the Siyrogyra’s Bells, Boots And Shambles from the same era (early 1970s).
Here is a sample:
“Comus are largely remembered for one album, ‘First Utterances’ recorded in October 1970…… its striking gatefold cover depicts an emaciated hommunculus, skin charred to a leathery black and gagging on its own bile………the self loathing mannequin foreshadows the music’s forbidding, often savage disquiet” – Rob Young from Electric Eden.
I worry myself sometimes that I am constantly drawn to music like this rather than Mumford and fucking Sons.
This is the opening track from that album:
Album download link courtesy of Lessmtvmoretmv blogspot
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