“Psychedelic pastoralism” – that’s how record label Critical Heights neatly summarises its new London charges Savaging Spires. The phrase is perfect: this is the music of crazed circuses careering down country lanes; of peaty cottages filled with firewood and dead bodies; of mistakes in muddy haystacks; of begrizzled farmers and questionable ancestries; and yes, of The Wicker Man. Theirs is a kind of spooked folk, witch house with cowbells. A debut album is due sometime this autumn.
Savaging Spires - Bending The Rules Of Time (mp3)