Lemoncello - Articulate Animal (Cladaggh) [Folk]

The string bowing, guitar picking, taste bud tickling, woozily named Lemoncello - better known to their families as Laura Quirk and Claire Kinsella, are a couple of alt-folksters with pop tendencies from Dublin, who take their music, but refreshingly, not themselves too seriously.

They've also got a new album coming out later in the year and "Articulate Animal" is; after the tender, heart-string tugging strains of "Meet Me Halfway", the second single to tease it, and it's an uplifting, forward-looking folk gem.

Kicking off with a cello drone it doesn't take the girls long to grace the ambient opening with their low-gravity vocals that float effortlessly over the never-ending note, but this is not your average acoustic Celtic folk tale. The pair have enticed a load of muso mates into the studio to lend a hand on various instruments and machines. Drums are quickly looped into an insistent, propulsive frame for the layered synths and strings to build on and weave around; the girls' voices remaining calm and collected as the song starts to build and intensify, sweeping the lyrics into the listening space and your consciousness. It's a pleasing wall of folktronic sound that bodes well for an eclectic, back to the future take on the folk condition when the LP drops in May.

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