Taken from their forthcoming album “Fiction” set for an early 2018 release, indie folksters Straw Bear have released the first track Venetian Gothic, a beautifully-crafted, guitar-drenched gem. The band, whose fans include Cerys Mathews, Bob Harris and Tom Robinson (the best co-contestants you could wish for in an episode of Come Dine With Me) (although are they decent cooks?) will be announcing news of the album shortly.
Straw Bear named their band after a “bizarre” festival in the home counties during which a single participant is dressed as yep, a straw bear, in celebration of the start of the agricultural year. This says more about frontman and founding member Ian Ray’s sense of the offbeat than it does…
Venetian enigma returns with another compelling glimpse of his soul. This is an album that has to be experienced in its full-blooded and lengthy whole. It’s almost shamanic in its hypnotic attack, combining as it does gnarly guitars and droning shapes with acoustic shards of light whilst all the time…
With "You Reap What You Sow", Australian duo The Weeping Willows notch another extra point for Gothic Americana. If 'You Reap What You Sow,' the latest (third) album by Melbourne’s duo The Weeping Willows, sounds like it might be leaning towards a sort of gothic Americana which could be anywhere…
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