"When he's not making proggy folk as a solo artist, Richard Dawson gets his skronk on as part of proggy new-wave art-rock group Hen Ogledd. Despite my attempts to do so in the previous sentence, the band are hard to succinctly describe: they can pivot from warm synthpop to mossy faerie folk to baggy Manchester shuffle beats to dense prog and even flashes of hip hop. Hen Ogledd are weird, but also welcoming."
"DISCOMBOBULATED is the third album with the current quartet lineup - Dawson, Dawn Bothwell, Rhodri Davies, and Sally Pilkington - and it's their biggest, wiggiest swing yet. Contributors include Australian drummer Will Guthrie, saxophonist Fay MacCalman, trumpeter Nate Wooley, and Davies' daughter Elli on flute, plus vocal assistance from Matana Roberts, Truly Kaput, C. Spencer Yeh, and Circle's Janne Westerlund. They're all folded into Hen Ogledd's amorphous sound, which is harder to pigeonhole than ever."
Four new albums receive attention: Hen Ogledd's DISCOMBOBULATED, a new record from Peaches after a decade, releases from The Would-Be-Goods, and work by Apparat. DISCOMBOBULATED marks the third album by the current Hen Ogledd quartet and represents a larger, stranger, and more inclusive musical move. The band's sound traverses warm synthpop, mossy faerie folk, baggy Manchester shuffle beats, dense prog, and occasional hip hop moments, creating an amorphous, hard-to-pigeonhole identity. Contributions from multiple guest musicians and vocalists expand the album's textures. Band members describe Hen Ogledd as something other than a normal band and liken it to a family.
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