THE GOLDEN BOUGH 2023 DEMO

by Wire Worms

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1.	The Seasons Round 03:50	buy track
2.	The Cutty Wren 03:52	buy track
3.	John Barleycorn 03:06	buy track
4.	Oak, Ash and Thorn 03:34	buy track
5.	Jack in the Green 02:39	buy track
6.	The Scarecrow 04:24	buy track

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The demo album of Wire Worms -- "The Golden Bough" -- explores a folk-horror kernel within the English folk oeuvre, following a trail set by the likes of Current 93, Hedningarna and Richard Dawson.

Specifically, the songs and stories that surround the sacrifice of sacred entities and the bringing of the seasons. A thematic within a myriad of traditional songs, more contemporary additions to the English catalogue, and the broader folk customs within which these songs are intertwined.

These literary elements are emphasised through a musicality that draws upon a different kind of British "folk" culture; through industrial, ambient, and bass music. This 'weirding', through disrupting the traditional compositional approaches to these songs, seeks to further emphasise and extract the relationship between the traditional, uncanny, and horrific.

Overall, we've tried to gather together a particular thread within the English oral tradition, while reinterpreting these songs through a broader conception of what "Folk" music entails.

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released June 4, 2023

Luke Carroll - Vocals
Jasmin Brown - Vocals
Matt King - Guitar & Backing Vocals
Joe Henry White - Production, Clarinet, Tin Whistle & Backing Vocals

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Wire Worms Leeds, UK

Wire Worms are a Neo-Folk project based in Leeds.

We aim to intertwine English Trad with experimental electronic music.

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