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Luxembourg’s Jerome Reuter continues his creative prolificacy with yet another new album (number fourteen, I believe), which follows last year’s ‘Le Ceneri Di Heliodoro’. And he’s joined on this latest outing of Neofolk Noir by a whole host of guest vocalists - some utilised as backing, others taking more of a lead role. Cue performances from the likes of Primordial’s Alan Averill (who sounds in fine folked-up voice on ‘Ächtung, Baby!’); Pallbearer’s Joseph D. Rowland; Behemoth’s Adam Negral; JJ from Harakiri for the Sky; and the ever awesome Laure Le Prunenec of Igorrr fame, plus Corpo-Mente and her own solo project, Rïcïnn.
But it’s Reuter’s heart and soul that feeds into and from the album during the listening experience; the guests are embellishments of such. As with the last album, this has an overriding feeling of grandeur… echoes of quasi-epic ambiences… but in very slow-burn, affective ways. As such, it’s an album that needs patience, time, space, and repeated listens to fully connect with its essence. It’s all very much worth the effort, though. Taking lyrical inspiration from the likes of Baudelaire, Yeats, Kipling, Nietzsche, et al, ‘The Lone Furrow’ is literate, philosophical and, most importantly, a damn fine listen. Reuter’s created another work of darkly atmospheric neofolk wonderment.
But it’s Reuter’s heart and soul that feeds into and from the album during the listening experience; the guests are embellishments of such. As with the last album, this has an overriding feeling of grandeur… echoes of quasi-epic ambiences… but in very slow-burn, affective ways. As such, it’s an album that needs patience, time, space, and repeated listens to fully connect with its essence. It’s all very much worth the effort, though. Taking lyrical inspiration from the likes of Baudelaire, Yeats, Kipling, Nietzsche, et al, ‘The Lone Furrow’ is literate, philosophical and, most importantly, a damn fine listen. Reuter’s created another work of darkly atmospheric neofolk wonderment.
LABEL:
FORMAT:
Trisol
Album
THE LONE FURROW
Review by Mark Holmes
RUNNING TIME:
43:52
RELEASE DATE:
28th August 2020
TRACK LISTING
1) Masters of the Earth
2) Tyriat Sig Tyrias; 3) Achtung, Baby!
4) Making Enemies in the New Age
5) The Angry Cup; 6) The Twain
7) Kali Yuga Uber Alles
8) The Weight of Light
9) The Lay of Iria
10) On Albion's Plain
11) Palmyra
12) Obsidian
13) A Peak of One's Own
2) Tyriat Sig Tyrias; 3) Achtung, Baby!
4) Making Enemies in the New Age
5) The Angry Cup; 6) The Twain
7) Kali Yuga Uber Alles
8) The Weight of Light
9) The Lay of Iria
10) On Albion's Plain
11) Palmyra
12) Obsidian
13) A Peak of One's Own
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN:
Luxembourg
"Reuter’s created another work of darkly atmospheric neofolk wonderment."
