Jim Ghedi & Toby Hay

"Daring, vibrant second from two skilled folk-guitar adventurers ... It seems entirely fitting that this album arrives via Topic, the great bastion of homegrown folk music that's housed everyone from Shirley Collins, Martin Carthy and The Watersons to Nic Jones, June Tabor and Martin Simpson. And nor are these two young guitarists unduly flattered by such company. Rather, Jim Ghedi & Toby Hay feels like a kinetic part of a growing continuum".

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"With Ghedi on six strings and Hay on 12, this new outing sidesteps Bert Jansch-ish fingerbusters for elegant mood pieces - the twinkly "Moss Flower", ersatz reel "Bog Cotton Jig" and (for the old school) a harp-free caress of Turlogh O'Carolan's "Bridget Cruise 3rd Air". Hay's lament "With The Morning Hills Behind You" nods toward Jim O'Rourke folk art, while "Gylfinir" (Welsh for curlew) mixes playful and mournful with square-jawed panache. Do it again".

"There's an almost timeless, specifically British strain of pastoralism conjured on this second collaboration between acoustic guitarists Jim Ghedi (six-string) and Toby Hay (12-string). With nimble melodies and cascading arpeggios the pair evoke an idealised Albion, just as Pink Floyd did with 'Grantchester Meadows' and Virginia Astley so wistfully managed on From Gardens Where We Feel Secure. The heatherladen moorlands of Ghedi's home in God's Own Country are harnessed during the hammer-on hopscotch of 'Bog Cotton Jig', while 'Swale Song' ripples and undulates in sympathy with the river sharing its name. But Ghedi and Hay also look across the Atlantic for their inspiration, with welcome deviations into the fingerpicking provinces of American primitivism".