Twelve-inch Vinyl (20min each side)
Housed in a manilla die cut hand screen printed sleeve
30x page booklet featuring essay by Jez Winship along with artist research notes and illustrations
Limited to 250

Ah, it doesn’t get more esoterically moving than this collection of responses to English fairy lore, courtesy of one of our favourite labels, Folklore Tapes. Plenty of familiar names if you’re even cursorily interested in this rich, slanted scene that’s grown up around labels like Folklore Tapes, Finders Keepers, Second Language, the outer limits of the Ghost Box stable…

The styles on show here range from lysergically inverted a capella folk traditionals to synth workouts, sound design with overlayed poetry of the North East (well, we hear a Yorkshire accent in there), disembodied piano chiming in the distance, goth-tinged, creepy improvisation, lush Broadcast-ish deconstructed cinematic pop music… the fact that Folklore Tapes and its head curator David Chatton Baker can stitch everything together with a really cohesive thread weaving through the styles is testament to the label’s aesthetic unity.

It’s a real joy of discovery and sensual stimulation.

DBH – Genuine Leaf Fairy Sighted in English Woodland
The Funz – Emain Ablach to Avalon
Mary Stark – King of the Faeries
Ian Humberstone – Swinging Lamps in Starlit Globes
Dean McPhee – Pudding Pie Hill
Tragic Magic – Rowan Ash and Red Thread
Stu Bannister – Holy Wells
Bridget Hayden – The Stone Woman
Mary & David – Lob of Spirits
Emily Oldfield – Diptera
Brian Campbell, Peter Smyth and Carl Turney – Requiem for the Lost
Magpahi – Transposed to Stone
David Chatton Barker – Starlight Quickbeam (Rowan)
Jennifer Reid – Boghart Hall Clough
David Jaycock – Sam Spriggan
Sam McLoughlin – Green and Brown
Sarah Lundy – Piseog [egg of ill omen]
Arianne Churchman – The Night-Mare
Steve Patterson and Mark Patterson – Faery Abstraction