David A Jaycock

James Yorkston announces a new collaborative album with David A Jaycock and Lina Langendorf (The Second Hand Orchestra). Due for release in May, listen to ‘Tide’, the first single from Yorkston / Jaycock / Langendorf.

With ‘Music for Space Age Shopping’, David A. Jaycock has achieved something quietly spectacular: an album rooted in highly specific locales and timeframes which nonetheless allows you to drift into nostalgia or to imagine better possible futures.

The sixth instalment from The Folklore Tapes Ceremonial Counties series covers Cornwall and South Yorkshire. It passes the creative reins over to experimental-leaning guitarist David A Jaycock and Sheffield-based avant-psych drone merchants Slug Milk to present two very different faces of experimental folk music.

‘Hold. Star. Return’ finds David A. Jaycock exploring more fully the world of antique electronica. A fuzzy, off-kilter melodicism pervades much of this weirdly beautiful album, which manages to be constantly aware of the past and yet never sentimental.

For the last few years, David A. Jaycock has been taking his practice into increasingly experimental and hauntological territory, and it is a joy to behold. This collection is the music of the looking glass, and Jaycock captures it better than anyone.

Our Song of the Day comes from David A Jaycock, with The Merman & his Muse a track from ‘David A. Jaycock (2011​-​2022)’, an anthology of sorts, featuring lots of other things including wonky nursery rhymes, folk arrangements and a little synth-pop.

Our Song of the Day comes from David A Jaycock with All My Trials, a song from Warwickshire, taken from his latest album ‘Murder, and the Birds’, out now on Triassic Tusk Records.

The undeniably beautiful songs of Murder, And The Birds relish the ugly and the odd… Jaycock is a master of carefully managed contradictions, and a true original.

David A Jaycock announces Murder, and the Birds, a beautiful album of eccentric English folk. Watch his video for lead single ‘The Murderous Huntsman’, also our Song of the day.

Much of the album is about the constant interplay between pastoral prettiness and modern-world weirdness, about how there is strangeness and partial alienation in what we think we know…It is this tension that makes the whole album so beautiful, and so unnerving.

Marry Waterson and David A Jaycock reveal brand new video ‘Forgive Me’, taken from latest album Death Had Quicker Wings Than Love. The song’s lyrics cover a subject that any mother could no doubt empathise with, and it is encased beautifully in their atmospheric folk song.

This week’s show has a strong leftfield and alternative feel to it. Some of the tracks are from albums released on small labels that we love: including Okraina Records, Folklore Tapes, Reverb Worship, Burst & Bloom, Cardinal Fuzz, North Western Recordings and Mega Dodo.