Sunday, December 6, 2020

Albums of the Decade - 26. Justin Hopper & Sharron Kraus with The Belbury Poly - Chanctonbury Rings (2019)

 26. JUSTIN HOPPER & SHARRON KRAS, WITH THE BELBURY POLY - CHANCTONBURY RINGS (2019)

A spoken word and poetry record about the changing of the seasons, that sits really well on top of The Belbury Poly's 8-bit style electronica. This LP carries a bewitching, pagan kind of spook, that narrates an American character's nostalgia for his lost grandmother and experiences a sighting of her among the chalk rings - that may have been left there by mystical beings.

The fact that in this digital age I was digging the samples of even Morris dancing - a British pecularity in of itself, was remarkable, given the range of scope of albums on this list - proving that nothing is left spare, surplus to requirements, even something like Elton Johns "Candle In The Wind," though that's a moot point. 






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