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Further From Grace Eclipse LP £11.99 Coming up in the wake of New Weird revellers like Charalambides, Jack Rose, The MV & EE Medicine Show and Six Organs Of Admittance, there’s emerged a parallel, slightly more classicist, strain of modern folk that forsakes the improvisatory approach of the first wave for more straight-forward singer-songwriter concerns, combining ornate arrangements, melodies picked out on fingers and a determinedly dazed take on psychedelia that reaches its apex in the cute pop of mainstream performers like Joanna Newsom and Devendra Banhart. While Nick Castro rarely strays into that particular camp (in every sense) he does share the pair’s fixation with precise retro stylings, meaning that the bulk of Further From Grace, the LA-based guitarist and vocalist’s second album, sounds like it could have been recorded anytime between 1967 and 1975. The presence of fellow folk spirits Josephine Foster and various members of Philadelphia-based acid folk group Espers, here trading as The Poison Tree, only adds to the overall sense of temporal displacement. Each track takes on the aspect of an obsessively plotted trek through the furthest reaches of the modern record collecting canon, with songs like “Unborn Child” lifting moves from UK acid folk sides like the Stone Angel album and South American psych legends like Traffic Sound and We All Together. |
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Further From Grace Strange Attractors Audio House SAAH-030 CD £10.99 Brand new studio album from this up-and-coming folk spirit that blends Laurel Canyon-style studio flash with moments of zoned acid, baroque arrangements and ISB-styled songforms. Features contributions from members of Philadelphia’s Espers and Josephine Foster. |
