Release Date: 11 October 2024
Label: American Dreams
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 727431750044
Genres: Folk
Description
The Shovel Dance is the most powerful release to date from nine-piece folk group Shovel Dance Collective, bringing studio fidelity and trickery to the rich arrangements and soaring vocals of their concerts - Their new album revolves around the group's interplay and close listening, no matter how many members of the band play on a given song or how many instruments feature (there are twenty-five instruments and eight voices).
With production by Mike O'Malley (caroline) and mastering by Matt Colton (Thurston Moore, Laura Marling), they give their arrangements an experimental edge--as close to Scott Walker or Swans as Shirley Collins or Bert Lloyd--that situates them on the bleeding edge of folk music, with unique beauty, force, and political charge.
Tracklisting
Shovel Dance Collective
Cameron Knowler & Eli Winter
Wendy Eisenberg
Nick Zanca
9T Antiope
Devon Welsh
Patrick Shiroishi
Siavash Amini
Julie Fowlis, Eamon Doorley, Zoe Conway & John McIntyre
Various Artists
St Agnes Fountain
Will & James Ragar
Subway to Sally
Kuljit Bhamra & Becky Price
Gjermund Larsen Trio
Berit Opheim
