Milkweed is an experimental gothic folk-noir duo, responsible for 'Remscéla', an LP created with banjos, loops, found sounds and glitchy, unsettling vocals. It was very possibly my album of 2025, certainly one of my most played. At the end of the year, they also reissued two earlier cassette only releases, 'The Mound People' and 'Folklore 1979', on vinyl for the first time. The band's lyrics are inspired by folkloric texts and their music is is lo-fi and haunting, claustrophobically enveloping the listener like a dense fog. I was lucky enough to see Milkweed perform twice last year, the first time was in my own home town, where the photo above was taken.
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Spooky stuff. Will investigate further. Think I meant to when you wrote about them last year
They inhabit their own universe. In concert they play a slab of music for 45 minutes, spoken word and found sounds segueing one tune into the next. Opinion was divided among the friends I attended the shows with, but, as you can probably tell, I was completely absorbed.
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