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"It's one of the strengths of the current British folk scene that its leading musicians keep regrouping in different bands. So after False Lights and Leveret comes this distinguished new trio, in which guitar hero Martin Simpson teams up with singer and fiddle-player Nancy Kerr and squeezebox star Andy Cutting. They are all fine soloists and accompanists, and the result is a varied set dominated by new songs about politics, history and nature".

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"Martin Simpson, Andy Cutting and Nancy Kerr - together? In one band? Three aces out of the hat all at once ... Naturally it's rather wonderful - how could it not be? ... The original songs of Simpson and Kerr all carry a mournful, accusatory edge which gives the album a deeper, more serious atmosphere than you might imagine looking at the personnel and track list ... In Not Even The Ground, Kerr has written a protest song about fracking that carries unmistakable menace behind the twinkle ... In olden days this lot would be called a "supergroup"".