Ben McElroy - Beacons Of The Wilderness (2023)
BAND/ARTIST: Ben McElroy
- Title: Beacons Of The Wilderness
- Year Of Release: 2023
- Label: Who Listens To Trees?
- Genre: Folk
- Quality: MP3 320 kbps /16 (88.0%); 24 (12.0%)-44100 Hz (88.0%); 48000 Hz (12.0%) FLAC
- Total Time: 38 min
- Total Size: 92; 208 MB
- WebSite: Album Preview
McElroy’s latest release, Beacons of the Wilderness, opens with haunting birdsong accompanied by atmospheric strings and a spoken narration. The song is about ‘the feeling that something has been lost,’ it’s a deliberately fuzzy opener to an evocatively curated and wonderfully weird album.
‘Bleating’, which is about how there are too many sheep in the UK, is almost cinematic, with sweeping strings and evocative clarinet conjuring a disconcerting folk-horror mood. ‘We Wandered Through the Memory’ on the other hand is a warm and dreamy nostalgic slice of 70s folksong.
‘Where We Don’t Go’ is a self-proclaimed grump, but in its delivery is a delightfully humorous and strangely theatrical little song. McElroy’s occasionally ethereal, occasionally ageless, vocals provide a sweet and sprightly travelling companion. ‘A Lore Unto Herself’ features samples from the documentary She Who Saved the Stories about the folklore collector Ella Mary Leather (1874-1928). McElroy cleverly blends archival recordings, synth, and live instruments in a collaboration which balances past, present and future.
The album closes with a dark and brooding spoken word piece, ‘Stinkhorn’, which perhaps unsurprisingly, is about mushrooms. Or maybe it’s not. Unsettling, enchanting, and downright odd, Beacons of the Wilderness proves a deliciously eccentric winner.
Tracklist:
1.01 - Ben McElroy - Beacons of the Wilderness (6:01)
1.02 - Ben McElroy - We Wandered Through the Memory (4:46)
1.03 - Ben McElroy - Bleating (5:24)
1.04 - Ben McElroy - Where We Don't Go (4:37)
1.05 - Ben McElroy - They Started Falling Like Rain (4:30)
1.06 - Ben McElroy - A Lore Unto Herself (3:58)
1.07 - Ben McElroy - Hitherto Cadaver/Seeds (5:36)
1.08 - Ben McElroy - Stinkhorn (3:35)
‘Bleating’, which is about how there are too many sheep in the UK, is almost cinematic, with sweeping strings and evocative clarinet conjuring a disconcerting folk-horror mood. ‘We Wandered Through the Memory’ on the other hand is a warm and dreamy nostalgic slice of 70s folksong.
‘Where We Don’t Go’ is a self-proclaimed grump, but in its delivery is a delightfully humorous and strangely theatrical little song. McElroy’s occasionally ethereal, occasionally ageless, vocals provide a sweet and sprightly travelling companion. ‘A Lore Unto Herself’ features samples from the documentary She Who Saved the Stories about the folklore collector Ella Mary Leather (1874-1928). McElroy cleverly blends archival recordings, synth, and live instruments in a collaboration which balances past, present and future.
The album closes with a dark and brooding spoken word piece, ‘Stinkhorn’, which perhaps unsurprisingly, is about mushrooms. Or maybe it’s not. Unsettling, enchanting, and downright odd, Beacons of the Wilderness proves a deliciously eccentric winner.
Tracklist:
1.01 - Ben McElroy - Beacons of the Wilderness (6:01)
1.02 - Ben McElroy - We Wandered Through the Memory (4:46)
1.03 - Ben McElroy - Bleating (5:24)
1.04 - Ben McElroy - Where We Don't Go (4:37)
1.05 - Ben McElroy - They Started Falling Like Rain (4:30)
1.06 - Ben McElroy - A Lore Unto Herself (3:58)
1.07 - Ben McElroy - Hitherto Cadaver/Seeds (5:36)
1.08 - Ben McElroy - Stinkhorn (3:35)
Year 2023 | World | Folk | FLAC / APE
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