These are songs that speak of ancient mysteries just below the concrete. With a narrow bleak focus, the song mirrors the changing physical geography of the valleys with the declining health of the last generation of coal miners. But this is no retrospective nostalgia fest, on the John Martyn influenced 'Come Alive A Second Time' Costin evokes the present day home of his father in the South Wales valleys.
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It's a song that wouldn't seem out of place on a Twin Peaks Soundtrack or the Fuzzy Felt Folk compilation.Įlsewhere the album features shimmering 12 string guitars, minimalist folk picking, echoing electric and primitive synths sounds straight out of children's TV that scarred a generation in the 1970's and 80's. The music they found there is natural and elemental, even stark in places with Thorpe's haunting voice taking the lead on Deadwood against a backdrop of primitive 70's TV flute-synth – “I saw comets, fields burning, earth turning, clay furroughs in ancient ground”. Inspired by the English folk and poet musicians of their youths – Julian Cope, Robert Calvert, Kate Bush - they travelled beyond the Keep Out signs, to the ancient green lanes and sunken tracks where our ancestors buried their bones. That journey, to nowhere in particular, is tracked on their debut album, the eponymously titled The Low Drift. Morag Rose they made a plan to explore edge-lands and barren fields. Working under the guidance of psychogeographers Jane Samuels and Dr. In 2019, friends in music Emma Thorpe, Matt Hill ,and Huw Costin came together to write songs about the land. An album about family, childhood and the memories that landscapes invoke. The beauty and the concrete, the mysteries and the folklore.
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