Once, Alasdair Roberts leavened his love of traditional Scottish styles with a sloppy-casual indie sensibility.
Now he burns like a convert and demands we meet on his mountaintop.
His egoless, idiomatic writing style indistinguishable from centuries old song, Roberts, and his gifted ensemble, graft surges of orchestrated acid-folk-rock abandon, dainty highland dance tunes, and florid minstrel guitar patterns into vast multi-faceted epics that still sound timeless.
It’s a radicalisation of the old rules the young Dylan would recognise, if he looked up from dissecting the songbook.
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