Crawling out of Baltimore like a psychedelic slug, Arboretum play the modal chord progressions you’d find on Seventies British folk rock albums, and douse them in cyclical strangulated lead guitar noise, a stoner metal band gone native at Cropredy.
David Heumann’s yearning vocals lie back in the mix, like a man straining to see something from the shore, and the band navigates a cover of Jimmy Webb’s The Highwayman, dignity intact.
There’s been folk rock before, but never folk-rawk, and as the flaxen fug of The Gathering achieves maximum penetration, one wonders why this particular hybrid has taken so long to bloom, because it’s beautiful.
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Syhr, breakbeat.co.uk
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Borathigh5, Youtube
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Anon, BBC Complaints Log
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John Robins, Comedian
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Yukio Mishima, dontstartmeoff.com
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James Dellingpole, Daily Telegraph
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BBC iPlayer edition of discussion of Stewart Lee on A Good Read
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Shane, Beverley, Dailymail.co.uk
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Microcuts 22, Twitter
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Joe, Independent.co.uk
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Brendon, Vauxhallownersnetwork.co.uk
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Gmanthedemon, bbc.co.uk
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Tin Frog, Twitter
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