Marry Waterson of the famous folk family, singer Lisa Knapp and sound sculptor and film-maker Nathaniel Mann form a unique new trio in this engaging, but more often dark concoction of words and music of traditional and original material. With spartan, but catchy acoustic instruments to accompany, it’s the whispered, spoken and sung vocals that stand out, with earthy humour, here’s plenty of tawdry tales, death and suffering on show, Daring Highwayman, as well as Hemp & Flax among the standouts, and one of the more upbeat, particularly on the former with Waterson and Knapp’s voices’ clever and sprightly interweaving. There’s a slower death and devilry on Ten Tongues as well as The Devil’s Cruelty, while Meat For Worms is an oddball, slow thing of shrivelling distortion, after which the album takes slower, grimmer downturn, embracing the inevitable. Out on One Little Independent.
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