Angelheaded hipster : The songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex
Marc Bolan
Emneord
Anmeldelser (2)
Folk radio UK
d. 26. aug. 2020
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Thomas Blake
d. 26. aug. 2020
"It hasn't taken Stick In The Wheel long to progress from puckish upstarts to critical darlings ... But success hasn't mellowed them. On Hold Fast - their third album proper - they are more searingly honest and politically charged than ever, while their music retains all the DIY energy that made them such a refreshing addition to the music scene. They now operate as a duo of core members Nicola Kearey (vocals) and Ian Carter (guitar and production), but the cast of co-contributors is impressive, and they seem more like a band than ever ... An urgent and quite brilliant album".
Songlines
2020 October
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Tim Cumming
2020 October
"Top of the world" - "[A] powerful, stark album that pits contemporary themes of hope and resistance to the forces of coercion, control and subjugation against the deep time of the folk traditional, pagan lore, and a vivid mix of rock, psych, medieval drone, folk-punk and more ... Stick in the Wheel are a brilliantly powerful and dramatic force, with Kearey's affecting vocals drawing out the full force of the words, slippery with 17th-century London slang on 'Budg & Snudg', drawing on Anglo Saxon texts for the sombre 'A Tree Must Stand in the Earth', from the Corpus Christi Carol for the sonically extraordinary 'Gold So Red', while 'Nine Herbs Charm' employs a tenth century spell to cast out poison. We need that now. A brilliant, powerful album of musical contrasts and lyrical depths, a major statement in the contemporary tradition".