Milkweed

For their latest project, Remscéla, Milkweed engage in vibrant and vital ways with the Táin Bó Cúailnge, a foundational myth of Irish literary and historical tradition. They remain the most exciting band in folk music.

Taken from their forthcoming album Remscéla, London-based duo Milkweed share the video for their latest single ‘The Pangs Of Ulster’ that tells of a curse that incapacitated the men of Ulster with the same pain felt by women in labour.

The Milkweed myth grows still more alluring as the London duo set their sights on the great Celtic epic The Tain (Táin Bó Cúailnge) for their new album Remscéla. Listen to their lead single ‘Exile of the Sons of Uisliu.’

Queer Folk sextet Goblin Band announce their debut EP ‘Come Slack Your Horse!’ and share their new single ‘Widecombe Fair’…Sounding like a 17th-century punk band, they deliver music in its raw, merry-making form – as intended.

To mark the release of ‘Folklore 1979’, the acclaimed new album from Milkweed, watch the full-length 11-minute accompanying video created by Greg Butler of Oh Kestrel Films…it unspools like a single disjointed dream narrative, taking in ritual, extinction, migration, esoteric cosmogony and Arthurian legend.

Milkweed’s ‘Folklore 1979’ is one of the most invigorating and interesting releases of recent years. While the duo would no doubt balk at the term masterpiece, as long as Folklore 1979 exists in the world, it will have to contend with such labels.

Folk music has always been inextricably tied up with history, but rarely has the relationship been as mysterious and rewarding as it is here with Milkweed’s ‘The Mound People’.

The debut winter-themed EP by Milkweed is something of an outlier…They seem intent on reviving the more outlandish, eccentric traditions of folk music, where old and new religions intermingle and where strange, bewitching sounds proliferate. This can only be a good thing.