Label: Brave Mysteries ‎– CQBL067
Format: Cassette, Album
Country: Canada
Released: 24 May 2017
Genre: Rock, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk, Neofolk

Tracklist

1 The Campbells Are Coming 1:22
2 Decay 2:57
3 Here Come The Navvies 2:48
4 The Ballad of Kilburn Campbell 8:27
5 Shatter 3:35
6 Arms Of The Mountain 5:55
7 A Bindrune For You 2:21
8 Farewell To Brackendale 1:59





The majestic northern soul of Crooked Mouth squares our shoulders and uplifts our hearts with their finest offering to date. Decay is rich and mature, smelling of salt and soil.
The ocean size bluster of side A, blows deftly through the scene with an upright and regal songcraft. Ian Campbell authors a songbook of focused and intimate originality which shines brighter than so many rehashed tropes. Foregoing the typical occult posturing and other sinister themes for a genuinely personal experience, the entire album brims with the heat of the hearth. A modest sense of ancestral pride, childhood nostalgia and homebound gratitude all well up from the atmosphere of this album. Side B sees our journeyman tear off his clothes to plunge over the rapids and land effortlessly into the kind of heart-opening grooves that have made the high north west regions famous, one generation after the next. Irish folk tunes meet post-industrial grit, tribal confidence and stirring Pacific dirge all wrapped in flannel and swollen with beer, stumbling in song with echoes bounding throughout the night and burning deeply together beneath a filter of giant fir trees. The arms of the mountain call you home.

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Label: Brave Mysteries – CQBL060
Format: Cassette, Limited Edition, C35
Country: US
Released: 12 Oct 2015
Genre: Rock, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Neofolk

Tracklist

A1 Quintessence (...Of Grief)
A2 The Raven
A3 Left In Ruins
A4 Black Bear
B1 Fear In Love
B2 Where The Wind Is (A Farewell)

Notes
"In the first ever Brave Mysteries collaboration release, we find two very exciting young Canadian Neofolk acts, Crooked Mouth and Night Profound, joining together to create a very touching album of pastoral ballads. Intricate acoustic tapestries and hushed voices rise and fall in a unique offering that is both reminiscent of their individual styles as well as entirely new and exclusive to this effort. For those unfamiliar, Crooked Mouth is the stirring folk music of Ian Campbell, whose music is equally steeped in traditional Gaelic folk forms and nuanced personal reflections on the brooding expanses of his native land way up in rugged British Columbia. On this remarkable working, the introverted and shadowy nature of Crooked Mouth is expanded and illuminated by the miasma of chthonic folk collective Night Profound. Also hailing from British Columbia, Night Profound weave a kaleidoscopic instrumental prowess and progressive songwriting through the proceedings. This is a truly unique album, offering glimpses at two nascent acts, working in intimate collaboration with one another while drawing inspiration from a region of the world thus far unrepresented in Neofolk circles."

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https://bravemysteries.bandcamp.com/album/crooked-mouth-night-profound