Bad Braids
Arrow and Orb
- A01 : When My Darling Turns to Dust (Parts II and III)
- A02 : I's Honey
- A03 : Oh Righteous One
- B01 : Sans Ben (Hail! Hail! The Benji! Speak to me oh wonderball!)
- B02 : Upward, Onward, Deep into The Night
- B03 : With the Willows
- B04 : Down in the Willow Garden
details
| CATALOGUE | relic 012 |
|---|---|
| FORMAT | 12 inch EP |
| EDITION | 1st run of 500 copies |
| SOUNDS | folk for the dreamfields |
| LENGTH | 0:24:31 |
| RELEASED | Thursday | March 29th 2012 |
| PACKAGING | black records with full colour centre labels // full colour jackets with photography by Robert Moses Joyce // design & layout by Amanda Boutourline and D.S. Ciarán |
Like a secret told between the closest of friends
lying in a sea of honeysuckle & bathed by a distant sun; the sad, sweet songs on this album feel as though they should traipse the lips of few and grace the ears of even fewer. Unlike such a secret, Arrow and Orb contains such a powerful brand of melancholy that emotion itself becomes an inverse function, barreling through the tunnels and hills of some distant dreamfield like the magnificent wings of some long-forgotten phoenix. Fire and brimstone meet the will of a suffocating ocean, handing smoldering, quiet passages of vocals and guitar into a whirlwind of bells, whistles, mandolin, percussion, bass, and more.
A voice that is sometimes a bass, sometimes based in dust and ancestry... from oceanic depths to a fluttering trill in moments of passage. This voice carries the album with a detached passion and direct attack on the senses simultaneously, delivering words of a heart aching for grander pastures.
At times sounding like a lost, hardened gem from the thousands of overlooked folk artists of the 60s and 70s, others sounding like a modern country venture steeped in international mystique, the album is tied together with the golden strands of true composition and songwriting, never once faltering and always packing a hand more powerful than any deliverable punch.
This Relic is summoned in the form of a twelve inch vinyl EP. Black vinyl records are housed in full colour jackets, featuring photgraphy by Robert Moses Joyce and layout by Amanda Boutourline & D.S. Ciarán.