Langan, Frost & Wane

"A Philadelphian coming together of Brian Langan from the indie scene, doom rock guitarist RJ Gilligan (Frost) and acid folk musician Nam Wayne, their debut album offers up 21st century psychedelic folk rock but drawing deeply on such formative 60s UK roots as The Incredible String Band, Comus, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Bert Jansch and Donovan's Gift From A Flower To A Garden. Even the album cover is of the era, evoking perhaps Cream's Disraeli Gears or Art's Supernatural Fairy Tales. Which basically means you get strummed acoustic guitars, medieval troubadour colours, flutes, trippy, pastoral lyrics, Middle Eastern hues and the other accoutrements of the genre ... A perfect recreation and distillation of the era's myriad textures and influences but, infused with freshness and delicacy, never one that sounds as though it's a musical history project to be preserved in amber".

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"Rock musicians have been dipping their toes into the Middle Ages forever, from Incredible String Band's troubadour folk, to Led Zeppelin's piper leading us to reason; from Iron Maiden's historical epics, to Fleet Foxes' dalliances with the Baroque. Langan Frost & Wane aren't mere dabblers, though. On their self-titled debut album, [they] are fully committed to the era, transporting listeners to a land of sorcerers, alchemists, falconers and damsels. Trafficking in eerie minor keys and buttressing their guitars with bouzouki, mandolin, harpsichord, flutes, violin and organ, the psych-folk trio is all in on the concept from opening track "Perhaps the Sorcerer" to the closer "Diomyria" ... What Langan Frost & Wane have done here is remarkable, having built a cinematic village of characters with tales to tell that resonate beyond that construct, and sound tracking it with instrumentation drawn from the folk world, Eastern genres and Renaissance fairs - and they've done it without being shticky. We hope to hear more from this trio of troubadours".

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