Smote

Smote takes us ‘Track-by-Track’ through “Songs From The Free House”, a monumental work, a transcendental journey where primal repetition and folk memory converge into something vital and eternal. It is the sound of the earth itself, speaking through cranked amplification.

Smote’s new album, Songs From The Free House, delves into a dark, elemental soundscape. With guest appearances from Lankum’s Ian Lynch and Sally Mason of the Smote live band, the record marries drone, folk, and electronic music. Their latest single, “Snodgerss”, is a flute-led jig turned ritual, with principal creator Daniel Foggin’s landscape gardening trade inspiring its earthy, heavy sound. The album is a powerful collision of physical and metaphysical.