Colonel Awkward

  I know very little about Northern Lighthouse Board aside from the fact that I own 2 or 3 physical artefacts of theirs (all via the wonderful Reverb Worship label - more on that later) - I have no idea who they are or where they dwell. I do know, however, that they (could be just a he/she for all I know) make music that is eerily beautiful. In their own words they make "soundscapes for Victorian seances and nocturnal forest gatherings, Abandoned lighthouses, possessed goats, occulted moons and haunted dolls houses."  'A Plague of Shadows' follows in the footsteps of 'The Spirit Cabinet', 'The Wych Elm' and a S/T album  released by Reverb Worship. For those that are not au fait with Reverb Worship, I would thoroughly recommend that you rectify that ASAP.  They excel in bringing to the public music that would sadly not get much exposure. A look through their 500 or so releases (with sublabels sleep FUSE and Future Grave) highlights the excellent taste a...

  This was one of those rare times I bought something unheard, mainly because I absolutely gobble up pretty much everything The Rowan Amber Mill (RAM) put out, the last being the wonderful 'Harrowed By The Stones'.  RAM have cornered the market in two aspects: the 'imaginary' soundtrack and 'folk horror' (or 'Witchfolk' or 'alt-folk' depending on what tag is popular this week).   Until this point I would have said that RAM's acme was the superb 'Book of the Lost', recorded with fellow arcane traveller Emily Jones, a bucolic soundtrack to an imaginary portmanteau TV series (think Amicus films but with more countryside). I would have to say though that 'Disciples of the Scorpion' transcends 'Book of the Lost', an accomplishment in and of itself.  To give some background, via RAM's Bandcamp page, 'Disciples of the Scorpion' is "The official soundtrack to the folk-horror film....a 1975 low budget film made...