![]() ![]() Directed by Craig Range, the video reminds us, in fact, that all of life’s small daily rituals add up to something profound and beautiful. The bittersweet melancholy of “Everything Reminds Me,” is brought into focus with its accompanying video. Standout track “How Could I Ever Be Single Again,” featuring Kacy & Clayton, haunts with a gently lilting lament. The Deep Dark Woods, a band with few fixed members, is a vessel for Boldt, keyboard wonder Geoff Hilhorst and frequent collaborators, Kacy & Clayton and Evan Cheadle, among others, to find their own vocabulary for translating traditional folk forms - Irish waltzes, Broadside Ballads, ominous lullabies - to contemporary electric terms. Boldt’s delicate melodies and metallic-stringed bite rattle centuries-old folkloric ghosts and personal demons alike. On Changing Faces, you will be surprised by how gradual yet complete a turn The Deep Dark Woods have made from cabin cozy jam band to pan-Atlantic folk revivalist collective. On Changing Faces, The Deep Dark Woods’ sixth album, Boldt works through the complications, unique to him and recognizable to many, of leaving one place for the next. The house is also an emotional dwelling, an inner place for processing upheaval, finding new direction and making peace with the past. It’s a house by the ocean, far from the rural prairie landscapes of his childhood and a defining feature of The Deep Dark Woods’ sound and lyrics. Boldt’s house is now full of pets and plants, and happiness. It’s psychedelic and traditional, contemporary and vintage, melancholic and joyous.Īll at once, it showcases a slightly psych-folk sound of Linda Perhacs, Fleet Foxes, and First Aid Kit rare country blues records and English folk tunes and 1920s disaster songs and murder ballads.“The air in the house is different now,” says Ryan Boldt, the creative force behind The Deep Dark Woods. The music of Kacy and Clayton (Canada) exists outside of time, and burgeons with beautiful contradictions. In place of the freewheelin’ jammy vibe there’s a darker, stranger tenor that sides with those modern mystics whose music exists in the creepier, freakier corners of existence. In Yarrow, there’s a juicy unease to frontman Boldt’s presence, as if a new door has opened to let loose the weirdness. With Appalachian soil under his fingernails, Boldt writes in a deep tradition of bleak and forlorn storytelling, drawing lines from Ireland to Tennessee, the Oxford Girl to Folsom Prison. Now wrest out of the woods, their outlook is decidedly more macabre, tapping into a rich vein of gothic surrealism that aligns with some of the great murder balladeers of our time. Yarrow is Deep Dark Woods reimagined by leadman Ryan Boldt, and accompanied by the same band that crafted prairie psychedelics and a “loose grungy folk sound” (Paste).įor nearly ten years they developed an international following with particular success in the Americana realm, nominated alongside Alabama Shakes and Dawes for Emerging Artist of the Year at the 2012 Americana Music Awards. A disease of the last century is a fitting backdrop for songs that dig bare handed into the loam to unearth the corpses of old English folk and country blues. The Deep Dark Woods’ newest album was borne in a fever – scarlet fever, to be medically specific. ![]() ![]() These anthems are definitely not from Eden. A gentle summer breeze swings the gallows ropes, flowers bloom callously on lovers’ graves. The Deep Dark Woods + support from Kacy and Clayton The Black Box Monday 7 May, 8.00pm Tickets £8.00 Book Ticketsįloods and plagues, ghosts and slaughter: woe to those who populate the songs of Yarrow.
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