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Partially separating the frost bitten fells that make up Lancashire's lucid landscape are small clusters of naked black trees and hedgerow that provide shelter for a host of disgruntled inhabitants hibernating from typically cruel British Winters. "

In a wood not dissimilar to this you'll find a welcome co-inhabitant who spends his time making fractured folk songs with limited electricity and a wide range of mutant, mechanical music machines ranging from zygotic zithers to 10 second tape loops, lutes and flutes. Imagine Delia Derbyshire in deepest Lancashire recording a Nepalese Incredible String Band with members of Os Mutantes and Faust keeping the generator warm and the kitchen operating in audible proximity. "

Sam McLoughlin's viscously self-sufficient, fair-weather commune band make the type of acid soaked folk and handicraft punk-rock that unified Gong and Soft Machine fans before he was born. "

Track listing ""

1. Intro "
2. Cruckle "
3. Never or Now "
4. Spider "
5. Andy and the Mole "
6. Kawai Kry "
7. Board Snore "
8. Open Cluster "
9. Story "
10. Number 3 "
11. Henbane Beer "
12. Small Riot "
13. Brave Kuda "
14. Cremation"
15. Shadow"
16. The Sound is Six "
17. Movement "
18. With a Snake"
19. The Eft "
20. Mammat "
21. Argyll Minor"