Crumbling Ghost 'Four' Album Release Show

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**Crumbling Ghost are not newcomers. They've been operating for some time, releasing records sporadically, Four' is in fact their fourth release.**

**Along the way they've accumulated a fervent coterie of followers, not to mention the occasional nod of approval from tastemakers such as Stuart**

**Maconie, Stewart Lee and Tom Ravenscroft. And though they've appeared at Roadburn, shared stages with Hawkwind and even Damo Suzuki, they remain (possibly by design) curiously under‑the‑radar. That might change with the quite wonderful 'Four'**

**The group's core idea is deceptively simple: traditional folk material refracted through the haze and heft of heavy, fuzzy stoner rock with a**

**chunk of psyche and a smattering of doom. But crucially, this is done without the costumery and theatrical tics that often accompany such collisions.**

**What Crumbling Ghost latch onto is not folk as a museum piece, but as a lived experience, the dramas of daily lives of ordinary people, the folklore, the tales of love and death, murder and adultery, freedom and oppression.**

**Fairport Convention with fuzz. Trees with heft. A pastoral Sonic Youth.**

**The result is a set of murder ballads, supernatural reckonings and cautionary tales, all wrapped in slabs of heavy, thumping fuzz and atmospheric sonics. Harnett's voice sits at the centre: unmistakably folk‑rooted, but shorn of prettification, melodic yet capable of real bite. There's no "hey nonny nonny" here.**

**7 songs, 7 worlds, all honed to perfection by**

**producer Wayne Adams (Green Lung/Big Lad) that will reward every repeated listen.**

**Folk and metal/heavy rock do have a connection of course, just look at Green Lung and their 'folk horror' infused musical universe, but Crumbling Ghost are a very different beast. 'Four' amply and beautifully demonstrates that when it comes to 'folk horror' there's nothing quite as horrible as folk**

**‘Four’ will be released by New Heavy Sounds on August 7th**

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