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Shovel Dance Collective gives English folk a restless new sound
Shovel Dance Collective’s third album, Everything in Readiness, opens with a three-song suite lasting more than 10 minutes. It moves from a grinding drone to a reel that blends traditional folk fiddle with abrasive noise. The nine-piece, London-based group then turns a hunting song first collected in the late 1940s into a rush of clattering sound. A heavily distorted guitar is audible, but the other instruments are hard to make out. The effect, the review says, is euphoric rather than oppressive.
Across the album, the group shifts between lo-fi recordings, surging noise, unaccompanied singing…
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