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The Gray Field Recordings - The Weaver's Daughter [Reverb Worship - 2016]

The Weaver's Daughter is a yin yang album blending together rich harmonic elements, with more soured & out of tune matter. And the project’s sound is very difficult to pin down into just one genre too. As it’s a slurred, jarring, and at times difficult blend of: wydfolk, neo-classical, moody avant composition, world music, stripped gothic composition, the blues, stripped-back Americana folk and ambience. With female vocals that move from lush & angelic, onto stark spoken, through to sensual & dark.

This album originally appeared back in 2009 on the Anticlock Records label- the original pressing came in a edition of just 100 copies. Here we have a late 2016 reissue on the always worthy Reverb Worship label, who of  course over the years has released many lost sonic & distinct sonic gems from the underground. This expanded CDR reissue of the album comes in an edition of 50 copies.

The reissue takes in the eight original tracks from the first issue, and adds in another eight- to give a new total release runtime of sixty six minutes. And really as mentioned in my opening the album twists & turns all over the place, going from harmonic-to-none harmonic, and shifting though & merging genres at ease.  The album opens with the five minute title track, which nicely blends sour & sweet- bringing together a mix of  slurred & discordant stringed instrumentation, sad & harmonic string sweeps, and richly sad yet angelic lead female vocals.  Later on “From Sheneland” moves from it’s opening blend of soaring solo female blues singing, vinyl crackle, and church organ. Onto a blend of moody semi- sang/ semi -spoken word female vocals, backwards vocal picks, & lonesome yet harmonic guitar strums. And towards it's end we move into morbid eastern European like folk, bringing together slowed & fading sweeps of discordant strings.

One of the later (and bonus tracks here) is “Every Earthly Pendulum”- this eight minute affair is  an see-sawing &  unsettling blend of sour feedback whines, minimal psychedelic organ pumps, & deeper texture drags- it sounds like a slurred & unsettled version of Wolf Eyes, if they’d been dumped in the woods for a few days.  Or there’s the  building & subtle dread filled simmer of  last track “A Collie Bird Calling”- which finds the female voice acting out a creep( and at times bizarre) story about a house in woods. Over a skeletal  backing of slow creaking, stretched vocal  simmers, and building judder-bound & out-of-focuses ambience.

Kudos really must go to Reverb Worship for uncovering another original, weird, & mostly wonderfully album here.  If you want to hook a copy of this I suggest fairly fast action, as it’s only ltd to 50 copies, and my copies 34/50. As of writing this review there are still some left, but I can't imagine they’ll hang around long.

Rating: 4 out of 5Rating: 4 out of 5Rating: 4 out of 5Rating: 4 out of 5Rating: 4 out of 5

Roger Batty
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