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Mary Epworth and The Jubilee Band

Imagine a folk Black Sabbath with brass band accompaniment and you're there. It's an amazing sound that drags you in without mercy. Mary's vocals are part sung, part sighed, contrasting with the Sabbs/banjo accompaniment. B-side "Lean" allows a funereal organ to underpin an emotive, almost spiritual vocal. I've never heard anything like this. More, please!

Terrascope

Like a lost 60’s gem that’s just been dusted off after being forgotten about and primed for a new generation of ears. This sounds a little sleazy to me too, in the best possible way.

Norman Records.

So exuberant in its ragged glory that you would be very hard-hearted indeed if you weren't moved to smile, to join its rutted rolling procession, its pilgrimage, its parade of smashing cymbals, shivering violins, clamorous voices and a horn section just roused from sleep, but game for the journey to Rome, to Damascus, Samarra, Mecca or simply the end of a cobbled London street.

shakeyourfist.blogspot.com

‘The Saddle Song’ is a gutsy, everything-playing sea shanty that - like Zach Condon’s Beirut project - takes traditional elements of folk and gives them an invigorating kick up the arse.

Soundsxp

Mary looks and sounds as though she could raise the spirit of the earth all by herself - what a voice!

Rock n' reel

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