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Crumbling Ghost (Pentangle meets Sabbath)

Apr 18, 2011, 14:07

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Record Label Blurb:
"Influenced as much by Martin Carthy and Pentangle as by Sleep and Electric Wizard, Crumbling Ghost are an intriguing prospect. Since playing their first gig as Damo Suzuki's (CAN) band of sound carriers, they have played on bills as diverse as Stinking Lizaveta, Roadsaw, Shonen Knife, Mary Epworth, Bearsuit, Invasion, Stereolab and the Lambeth Wind Orchestra. An eclectic mix of traditional folk, prog-rock space jams and monstrous Melvins-esque riffs, their debut album is clearly unlike anything else out there."

4* Review:
"I bought this album on impulse after hearing a track on Stuart Marconie's Freak Zone (BBC R6). I thought I was buying a heavy folk album, and indeed it is; but there is so much more going on here. This band hails from Norwich, which makes some kind of sense, given that you get a mix of heavy metal and folk on some tracks, kind of traditional folk-rock crossed with Black Sabbath - just the kind of thing you might expect to find in a rural pub-venue, even to this day, where punk never seems to have happened. (This sounds like a disparaging comment, I know, but it really ain't ...) But, and here's the refreshing twist to this, the folk-metal is interspersed with some beautiful melodic post-rock instrumental work-outs, awash with sensitively controlled feedback, that brings to mind a C21st Hawkwind. The Withered Hand Records' blurb announcing the release of the album says that Crumbling Ghost have recently backed Damo Suzuki's (CAN) live performances which, given the eclectic nature of the songs on offer here comes as only some small surprise. It is traditional to suggest some helpful 'sounds-like' meta-data reference points, but I'm at loss what to say with this one, except that it's strange and it's very very good, and it will be a companion on my i-pod for some time to come; and, I'll be looking out to see if Crumbling Ghost are playing live in London any time soon - it will genuinely be an unpredictable experience. Highly recommended".

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Crumbling Ghost (Pentangle meets Sabbath) – mingtp, Apr 18, 2011, 14:07


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