Amazing

FantabulousPWooster

I'm a big fan of 70s folk--Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span, various Martin McCarthy-related groups. This set completely blew me away! The songs, the voices, the interweaving polyphonic lines and shifting time signatures, the rousing brass and percussion... simply awe-inspiring. "The Maid and the Palmer" is a definite highlight, a simultaneously macabre and hopeful tale of the redemption of a woman who murdered her nine children. You'd never guess it from that description, but the song itself is simply radiant. Really, though, the whole album is just aces and may be the single best album I've gotten from Emusic (which is saying something, since I've been on their maximum-downloads plan for 3 years or better!) Don't be put off by the goofy group name, this is something everyone should hear.