Poor Creature: All Smiles Tonight review | Jude Roger's folk album of the month
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Adieu Lovely Erin begins on a tender note of psychedelia, mixing influences from Broadcast and Cocteau Twins. The sound features female vocals reminiscent of sean-nos singing and driven by krautrock-inspired drumming. Poor Creature, consisting of Ruth Clinton, Cormac MacDiarmada, and John Dermody, integrates diverse musical elements into their debut album. Cowboy songs, Irish ballads, and bluegrass intertwine to create a playful yet eerie atmosphere. The instrumentation includes a Hohner Organetta, Otamatone, and theremin, while dense harmonies and dynamic drumming propel the sound towards a contemporary folk-rock fusion.
The debut album from Poor Creature features a blend of cowboy songs, Irish ballads, and bluegrass steeped in a misty, playful lightness that carries eerie power.
The musical arrangement includes preprogrammed beats from a Hohner Organetta, wails of an Otamatone, and theremin sounds, adding childlike, hauntological flavors to the music.
Landless's Ruth Clinton delivers 'Bury Me Not' with a bright, shining innocence, capturing the lament of a dying sailor desperate not to be buried at sea.
Cacophonous final minutes of 'The Whole Town Knows' hint at folk music rocketing somewhere poppy, wild, and new due to involving dense harmonies and propulsive drumming.
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