Constant Follower and Andy Aquarius both have TSMM form, so seeing them collaborating on Constant Follower's new single for their forthcoming LP, made me raise an eyebrow. Constant Follower has been making inroads with the "alt-folk" scene for the last four years with two great albums, I particularly have a fondness for Neither Is, Or Never was, their debut.
Aquarius is a Berlin based harpist with questionable taste in headwear - maybe he lives in a dangerous part of town, but he's an undoubted talent, who ploughs both traditional and electronically augmented neoclassical furrows to always interesting effect.
On "Almost Time To Go" Aquarius acts as both celestial light and propulsion, driving the track forward with scurrying, metronomic harp insistence, a fine counterpoint to the soft, gently melancholic, empathetic vocals of McCall's lead vocal that sit warmly on the track's electronic edginess and warm, less hurried guitar work. It's a multiple emotion tugging slice of dreamy, forward looking folk noir not noir that deserves your attention.
Don't overlook the other three available tracks as well. "Whole Be" is a warm, dreamy folk delight, the amusingly titled, "Patient Has Own Supply" has a similar warmth if something of an opiated, detached air and paves the way nicely for, "All is Well" with it's swirling, steadily building sense of the dramatic, which makes you wonder if he's not just putting on a brave face? Either way the album is one for the diary.
Playlist Companion:
You can find these fine artists in the Slow Folk Playlist and Constant Follower going it alone in the Slow Indie-Folk selection:
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