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“There is a magic place where folky warmth meets lurid technicolour
horror, where progressive rock complexity and all out skull-crushing
doom combines with classic songwriting to flesh out a sinister but
romantic vision of twisted dreams and lurking threats hidden just out of
view. That place dwells in the debut album by Purson.


The Circle And The Blue Door finds the missing link between Pentangle
and Pentagram, by way of David Bowies dream reality and The Beatles
feel for the perfect melody. And while it owes a debt to front woman
Rosie Cunninghams clear love of the late 60s and the early 70s, it is
her poetic, evocative lyricism, tight song craft, sonorous vocal style
and dedication to deep musicality that takes this wonderful album far
beyond the waters of pastiche.


There are not too many 21-year-olds out there who are familiar with
the early 70s golden age of satanic flute rock, when bands like Black
Widow and Monument terrified Middle England with slow yet ominous odes
to the devil, all the while dressed like sociology lecturers from the
Open University. But Rosie Cunningham has gone her own way from a young
age. Being named after the great god of Hell, may evoke the
colour-saturated English countryside of early 70s Hammer Horror movies,
but they do so with Beatles-esque sophistication, baroque charm and
minor key reflection.”

 

(vinyl color is unknown)

 

Tracklist:


1. Wake Up Sleepy Head

2. The Contract

3. Spiderwood Farm

4. Sailor’s Wife’s Lament

5. Leaning On A Bear

6. Tempest And The Tide

7. Mavericks And Mystics

8. Well Spoiled Machine

9. Sapphire Ward

10. Rocking Horse

11. Tragic Catastrophe

 

 

 

Available at Rise Above Records very soon.

 

North American folks can pre-order a copy now at my shop -

 

http://lastrightsrecords.storenvy.com/products/1173916-purson-the-circle-the-blue-door-vinyl-color-unknown-pre-order

 

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