Follow them true

"Respecting folk music's past while uprooting it from the pastoral, the UK group's politically minded album mixes acoustic and electronic instruments across original songs and traditionals".

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"Born in the Essex badlands from a motley background that includes dubstep and hard rock, Stick in the Wheel conform to none of the lazy stereotypes that surround folk music. Their 2015 debut, From Here, arrived like a punk manifesto; urgent, abrasive, with no contrived antique accents, jangling guitars or prettification of the hallowed tradition. This follow-up maintains their fierceness while broadening their sonic palette and embracing a more diverse approach in its 50/50 mix of standards and originals".

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""Follow Them True" (...) sees these five musicians' disparate skills and musical backgrounds (folk music, visual and sonic art, underground electronica, contemporary classical and metal) fully coalesce into a coherent and unique group unity. It retains all the excitement and urgency of its predecessor on tracks like (opener) "Over Again" and "White Copper Alley", but there's real, affecting beauty in the likes of the waltz-time "Blind Beggar" and "Red Carnation" - a song that Nicola Kearey delivers with a breadth of emotion to compel anyone foolish enough to dismiss her as a Cockney bawler to fall to their knees in penitence. There's a wonderful solo, unaccompanied version of "Unquiet Grave", a terrific, mass-chorus singalong on "Poor Old Horse" ... It's the title track, "100,000 Years" and "As I Roved Out" that will inevitably draw the ire and Incomprehension of some of the folk(y) world, for their (startlingly effective) auto-tune-as-instrument vocal manipulationsandelectronic ambience".