It’s interesting how a sound so British has beguiled so many acts from the USA.
If the numbers of pysch-folk and folk underground compilations released in the last couple of years are anything to go by, it seems we have an insatiable appetite for music whose principle qualities are both as tangible and as curiously ephemeral as smoke drifting up from a forest campfire.
Whereas Strange Folk, Gather in the Mushrooms, and other similarly bucolic collections blew the dust off tracks that enjoyed their first bloom of youth over 30 years ago, Psych Folk 10 gathers up a clutch of today’s tunesmiths and minstrels wandering the highways and byways of the internet age.
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Bron: BBC Music