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Gather In The Mushrooms by Various Artists

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• Label: Sanctuary
• Released: 26 February 2008
• 'Gather in the Mushrooms' features some truly excellent music, though certainly not 'folk' in any real sense of the word. 'Folk-influenced' would be a better description, much like the 'apocalyptic folk' or 'neo-folk' which blossomed during the 1980s (also in Britain), this earlier 'acid folk' derives inspiration from traditional folk without emulating it too much lyrically or even musically.
  
  There are some real gems on here, ranging from Sallyangies' beautiful 'Love in Ice Crystals' to Trader Horne's 'Morning Way' (which feels like the breaking of dawn through murky clouds). More famous and familiar pieces include Comus' 'The Herald' from their unique 'First Utterance' album; Forest's 'Graveyard', an amazing tune (with a riff that sounds like The Clash's 'London Calling', or NOS's 'My Little Sociopath'); and Magnet's erotic setting of the Robert Burns poem 'Corn Riggs', which will be familiar to many from 'The Wicker Man' soundtrack.
  
  The only regrettable song is Buffalo's 'Writing on the Wall', a blues-based piece which doesn't fit with the rest of album. Being a narrow-minded bigot, I usually skip this track. With that exception, 'Gather in the Mushrooms' takes me away to another place, and a time beyond time. I highly recommended it to all lovers of quality music. 
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• • Corn Riggs
  • Love In Ice Crystals
  • Lyke Wake Dirge
  • Graveyard
  • Milk And Honey
  • Morning Way
  • Buffalo
  • Silly Woman
  • Liz's Song
  • Lord And Master
  • Old Boot Wine
  • Winter Is Blue
  • All My Friends Are Back Again
  • Rosemary Hill
  • Love Song
  • The Family
  • Queen Of The Moonlight World
  • The Herald