Awaken

"Windjammer, with their musical wizardry and determinedly outsider stance, evoke not one but two past ages. Firstly, there is the England, or rather Albion, from which all of paganistic spiritualism has evolved ... Secondly, they rather splendidly recall the sounds of a specific stylistic development, primarily in England, from just over fifty years ago that shared a fascination with these very same mystical times. I am thinking of that acoustic detour Led Zeppelin took on their third album (...); also the Incredible String Band and Dr Strangely Strange, sitting cross-legged and acoustically jamming loosely, their heads filled with knights of the round table and hippy progression ... The changes in ['The Pirate King'] and theatricality in the vocal are pure Prog drama (...); the six-minute epic [is] a proper calling card for the Windjammer modus operandi (...); as a lead singer Jake Sonny Rowlinson sure knows how to put a story across whilst Fran Rowney takes credit for those attention-grabbing low whistles; Jeremy Bunting unleashes the ghost of Bert Jansch in the way he attacks those acoustic guitar strings".

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