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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Pirate Crocodile, Twitter
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Esme Folley, Actress, cellist, Twitter
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James Dellingpole, Daily Telegraph