Trembling Bells

Monday 20 June 2016
The Portland Arms
Trembling Bells bring Scottish Folk Rock to the Portland Arms, Cambridge.

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"A glorious collage of musical artistry, drawing from darker regions than did any of its predecessors, it’s a work of extraordinary ambition, integrating aspects of Classical Greek tragedy, unorthodox religious imagery and some of the more jagged, acid-tinged pastoralism of drummer-vocalist Alex Neilson’s late 1960s psych-folk heroes the Incredible String Band.

Freighted with disparate ideas, the album convinces through its willingness to thrust forward without losing sight of a song’s considered structure, and also through insisting on a disciplined cohering of the elements. Thus, the swirling Farfisa sound in "Killing Time in London Fields" adds a decided rhythmic strength rather than providing merely colourful atmospherics. The band is determined to delve into a range of pasts, and if lead vocal Lavinia Blackwell sometimes calls to mind Grace Slick’s soaring flights of fancy, she does so without any affectation and always with an emphatic and appropriate sense of musical purpose." The Line Of Best Fit

 

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