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Emerging from the mystic legacies of Scatter, Lucky Luke and Directing Hand, cape-clad folk-rockers Trembling Bells are helmed by rhythm diviner Alex Neilson (Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Alasdair Roberts). Carbeth, their debut long-player, is a vintage, madrigal-toting delight. Neilson — a Glasgow- based improv augur with a long-held fixation on the British folk idiom — assembled Trembling Bells as a conduit for his first stab at songwriting. The results are staggering. Carbeth conjures up a mythic pop maelstrom of free-jazz, avant-rock, rockabilly, doo-wop, alt.country and mediaeval song. It variously invokes Pentangle, Sonic Youth, Fairport Convention, Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci, Van
Morrison and Albert Ayler.
This is, of course, in no small part thanks to Neilson’s fellow Trembling Bells: vocal thaumaturge Lavinia Blackwall raises the roof on chimerical reverie ‘When I Was Young‘ and arcadian serenade ‘Willows of Carbeth‘; while Simon Shaw (bass), Ben Reynolds (guitar), George Murray (trombone) and Aby Vulliamy (viola) importune a high-flown hoopla on mercurial freak- out ‘Garlands of Stars’ and meandering anthem ‘I Took to You (Like Christ
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But it's Neilson’s fantastical muse that distinguishes this joyous folk-rock cabal. His canticles revive and weave the doctrines of Rimbaud, Blake and Bob Dylan; braid ancient oral lore with (oft-humorous) urban yarns.
Carbeth animates a quixotic bailiwick of Glasgow twilights and hexes on dresses; of pastoral fables and drunken weans; of Marlboro smoke and the Campsie Fells. It’s a realm in which loves are lost, and returned. In which
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