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The Eighteenth Day of May
The Highest Tree
Transistor Records 7”
Article
written by Ged M
Jul 3, 2005.
You can look at this in two ways: these are traditional tunes played in a contemporary way (the same way that, say, Nick Cave interprets old blues songs) or they’re modern pop songs with the patina stripped back to show that the same heart beats at their centre as songs first sung hundreds of years ago. Either way, the combination of new and old, played by a band in their 20s, should satisfy everyone from the folk purist to the acid-psychedelicist. In an era cursed by Crazy Frog, there’s something liberating about rediscovering classic genres and playing them in new ways. ‘The Highest Tree’ straps that Fairport-Pentangle English folk to a Spacemen 3 chassis and shoots it into space, trailing fiddles, flutes and the sweetest drones; re-entering the atmosphere, ‘Sir Casey Jones’ floats above the US West Coast, its sumptuous harmonies and twang-jangly guitars reminding you of the Byrds circa ‘Younger Than Yesterday’. If there’s a nu-folk revolution, this will be the detonator!
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