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The most musically adventurous trio in British folk team up with Tucker Martine, the US producer who has worked with REM and Gillian Welch, and the results are perhaps predictably unexpected. Lau are a remarkable band, particularly live, thanks to their stirring, complex, partly improvised compositions and the virtuoso interplay between fiddle, accordion and guitar. The new element here is electronic music: it is used to create percussive effects that are matched against their instrumental work on the ambient Far from Portland (a tribute to Martine's home city), or against Kris Drever's vocals on the sturdy Saint Monday, one of several songs dealing with industrial decay and hard times. But as ever with Lau, the mood constantly changes. Save the Bees switches from sombre to cheerful and back, while Torsa is a gentle, then upbeat example of Lau's exquisite and hypnotic musicianship at its best.



Verenigd Koninkrijk
Folk
Label: Reveal Records 


01 Saint Monday
 02 Far From Portland
 03 The Bird That Winds The Spring
 04 Missing Pieces
 05 Save The Bees
 06 Torsa
 07 Throwing Pennies
 08 Noltland Castle
 09 Beer Engineer