Monday, February 11, 2013

#745 The Incredible String Band - The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

My distaste for inflected, warbling singing is well-documented here, as is my disinterest in folk, so a Scottish folk band starts off with some ground to make up. Amending that to psychedelic folk is a good start, but...no.

There's richness here, inventiveness, mystery even, all things I like. But this is self-important, overbusy, doubly, triply warbly, relentlessly uncharming and often downright annoying. It is so much of a muchness, so striving, so imposing, so WE ARE THE MUSIC OF THE WORLD. WE ARE WHAT'S NEXT AND WHAT WILL ALWAYS BE, it's Animal Collective meets the Polyphonic Spree, it can't be abided, at least not by me 2/5

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