Premiere: Three Orphans.
February 14, 2011, 1 comments
Portland, Maine’s Jakob Battick & Friends finally return with their very unique take on contemporary folk music, once again turning classic tropes of 20th century Americana into haunted and eerie pieces of forward-looking yet history-informed “nightmarefolk”. On March 11, the group will drop their new EP Bloodworm Songs, a collection of reworked and reinterpreted Battick songs as well as two entirely new ones, one of those being Three Orphans, a slowly meandering composition driven by a lonely acoustic guitar line and beautiful male/female vocalizing. This piece instantly puts the listener into a comfortable state of dread in view of the inconnu, evoking an overwhelming maelstrom of dark sensations. The accompanying video is aptly underlining the song’s tone, a monochromatic stream of hidden memories and suppressed fears.
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