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The Crow Mother

by Wickerbird

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Anthony Childs
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Anthony Childs High emphasis on group singing (there may only be two singers but it sounds much bigger), acoustic guitar & banjo, live recording in spaces with natural, sometimes cavernous reverb and perhaps studio reverb. Simply gorgeous and hauntingly mysterious songs just as you'd expect if you judged by the cover. Highly recommended for fans of Jordan Ireland & The Purple Orchestra, The Middle East and Matthew Liam Nicholson. Thanks to Ryan Keane of Lost Tribe Sound for turning me on to this. Favorite track: Druids.
Uzon10
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Uzon10 A very spiritual Album, something new and delicate, rich in color and soul - riddles. Favorite track: The Fold.
Mubla Na Thguob
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Mubla Na Thguob I hope it doesn't sound like an insult to say that I bought this album because it puts me to sleep. It's great and I wouldn't change a thing about it! Favorite track: Druids.
Sarah Oksiuta
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Sarah Oksiuta Dude, you are so depressing yet I can't ignore you. Favorite track: The Crow Mother.
Tom Loss
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Tom Loss The word "haunting" gets thrown around too much these days. This album is one of those rare cases where it's perfectly apt. The sound of a church choir trapped in a concrete bunker and slowly running out of oxygen... Favorite track: The Fold.
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1.
The Fold 03:36
and when you wake, you'll wake in the mornin your fingers cold your fields to be sown feeble today, just like the seedlins asleep in the fold but one day you'll grow alders breathing, keepin, weepin. leaves all sinking, fever dreaming. brothers sleepin, wolves all creepin weavers weavin nothin and what you take, you'll take it for storin the bitter snow the winter you know feeble today, just like the seedlins sleepin in the fold but one day you'll grow alders breathing, keepin, weepin. leaves all sinking, fever dreaming. brothers sleepin, wolves all creepin weavers weavin nothin alders breathing, keepin, weepin. leaves all sinking, fever dreaming. brothers sleepin, wolves all creepin weavers weavin nothin
2.
Beargrass 04:57
down the sound, i fled for autumn out her gown, the woodshed sodden boards and brown-- we're ever the garden's now down the ground, the brush I'm wanderin now resounds with thrushes hauntin fountain-drown, my wishes wanton callow down, my willow's walkin. all of this was interim all of them were innocent in the mire with the wrens say oh down the hound, we lie with cravens and unfound, we make our makings all our rounds-- and never the dogs did frown down the mound, the dark is takin wound around our sorrow shakin. let me now-- forever this love abounds all of this was interim all of them were innocent in the mire with the wrens say oh all of this was interim all of them were innocent in the wild with a grin say oh
3.
The Birds 04:31
they are nowhere rest your head there sleep softly i will catch thee now snow is on the road torn your mothers clothes she'll never know know know know know know know know oh no all your fingers cold hole you dug alone she'll never know know know know know know know know
4.
Tripoli 03:17
someday someday beside the ocean we are devotion we are the same something something deep in the notion sifting through tokens nothing will change but oh my god i fear what we were sent for and oh my god ive seen you here before and all the owls and i in trees of maple and oh my god the green i've seen before tripoli is calling me tripoli is calling me tripoli is calling me tripoli is calling me someway someway we lie in motion seeing whats broken seeing the rain sunday sunday beside the ocean we'll quaff a potion we'll die in may but oh my love i see what we were sent for and oh my love ive seen you here before and all the dogs with him, the king of naples and oh my love, the queen will sleep no more
5.
Druids 05:58
in the day my darlin i was here before i was stealin starlins i was sleepin on the shore on the shore in the day youre turning we were hidden for we made picture books and we made fixtures on the floor on the floor on the floor on the floor but you were gone
6.
Knapsack 02:42
7.
Tall Rooms 06:31
we were roamin' lost we were searchin' through the garden in the perma- frost they were turnin' as we watched them but I I wasn't borne away from tall rooms to saloons behind the fever maids that wait in volumes i will find you sunken in the moss they were callin from the firmament drunken by the faust we had fallen we were maudlin oh i wasn't shorn away by calhouns to say sooth and i on these craven legs i sail through to fault you but i i could see your toes were cold the dust you wrote was on my clothes and oh of all the incantations fate had bared my fearsome never alone
8.
in the pine and paraffin they were cold they were interim in the wine: witherin your ghost you were slight very thin in the snow we were buried and in the night, tarried in your home naked you were naked naked you were naked in the brine bretheren with the rain you were glistenin thin my rind tethered in your name sleep inside peregrin round the glade you were featherin in my stein weather won't abate naked you were naked naked you were naked naked you were naked naked you were naked
9.
Towertop 04:32
been around sticks and stone for month or so all the while all i know could be terra-formed and though their pocketbooks are vacant, vagabonds and vagrants always will know and though our bones are newly naked petty, drunk and shakin were buried in clothes but you seldom see carnations springing into bloom god almighty shaking aching too bowers where your sisters whisper in the gloom towertop's in cinders all too... soon and mama wrote you be coming home oooh my wanton coat my loss in jericho cause even in the sty you never see the lies youd ever been told and even though i try to in the woods im never alone but you seldom hear them ringing sleigh bells in the noon callow bodies singing of the moon galavanting gosling walking through the room all decanting something of the... of the swoon but you seldom see carnations springing into bloom god almighty shaking aching too bowers that your sisters whisper in the gloom towertop's in cinders all too...
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Hinterland 02:35
11.
brother I married in the grove passed awhile, ferried to the shore you took to the floor and there, carried on brother I never let you know her tongue her teeth were all i know her cigarettes were fabled i took my hands upon the stove, my silhouette all sable and i told you, told you, told you, what I told you before in the wold you, wold you, wold you, in the wold you will grow the pyre, the pine, were growing high, the crow that hide in stables the words i find, from garden-wights i carved them in your table and i told you, told you, told you, what I told you before in the wold you, wold you, wold you, in the wold you will grow and don't break home to prove you're not alone they wont let go the songs are never gone though their tongues are painted on and don't break home to prove you're not alone they wont let go the songs are never gone though their tongues are painted on

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released September 25, 2012

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