The Album Club choice for February 2020 comes courtesy of Mark (YNWaN) with Snow Ghosts 'A Small Murmuration'.

As always please listen to the album in its entirety before you comment and vote.



Snow Ghosts - ‘A Small Murmuration’



I’ve chosen this album for a number of interweaving reasons. Perhaps obviously (perhaps not) it is a record I really like (I have the vinyl copy but it’s available on other formats), but then I have hundreds of records I really like, so why this one in particular? I suppose I chose it to present here because it is; 1/ probably not a record many will have heard before, 2/ an unusually complex mix of different genres - folk, metal, electronica, ambient, world etc. 3/ it is not inaccessible (I believe) for those unfamiliar with music of this type, and finally - it sounds amazing on my system with sweeping soundscapes and staccato drums beats. One second it is all lush harmonic textures and the next it is pounding rhythms. This record sound fine on an iPad but it really sounds so much more complex and sophisticated on a proper hifi.

Probably the most immediately accessible track, and the one you may have heard before is ‘And The World Was Gone’:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcJt4wNeYN0

The whole album:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v5g...&start_radio=1

Below is the link to the relevant Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Ghosts

Below is the link to the group on Soundcloud:

https://soundcloud.com/houndstoothlb...osts-a-small-1