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Dredd Foole
Songs To Despond Ya
Apostasy Recordings AP-029
LP
£14.99
Beautiful limited live album of space/folk songs from Mr Dan Ireton aka Dredd Foole, with a close-up acoustic guitar style that functions as a mainline to his vision of classic rock/balladeer forms (Dylan/Laughner/Reed/Buckley) lubricated by time/space slippage and new vectors of osmotic tongue pressure, all topped off with those amazing vocals. Dan revisits a bunch of previously recorded tracks and subtly alters their co-ordinates and the way he implies a whole universe of freedom with simply a buncha guitar chords and an elastic delivery is nothing short of astounding. I’ve said it before but there ain’t nothing that more approximates the whole ‘idea’ of free folk as *the* form-destroying mode of liberated people outside of Dan’s back catalogue. And in a lot of ways, this might just be his most perfectly articulated side to date. Highly recommended.
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