Swallows
In the Shadow of the Seven Stars
Midwest Record
By Chris Spector
Originally published on April 30, 2021
Been pissed off the folk world hasn’t produced any good murder ballads lately? Here’s a folk/rock crew giving over a whole album to a real life grisly murder in the late 1800s that happened in England. Adding elements of genre hopping that gives a Goth feel to the proceedings, the album length gives this a cinematic feel. Wild.
(Emperor Penguin 12)