'Crackled, radio-like transmissions from Norway's rural hinterlands.' Sometimes the Spotify bios say it best. Certainly here, in terms of describing Norwegian Folk siren Juni Habel and Carvings her record from January this year.
I missed out on it at the time. And it's only thanks to the wonderful Moofmag Blog that I've caught up with it now. I'd like to advertise them on my so called 'Blogroll' to the right side of this homepage, but it decides to post an enormous thumbnail which obliterates half the page, so can only recommend them to you now.
Carvings came out at around the same time as Meg Furling's sublime Furling and shares similar Dark Folk leanings and mystical concerns to that record. There are several other albums of a similar persuasion out already in 2023, Lankum, Lisa O'Neill, Alaisdair Roberts. Perhaps it's an indication of the temperature of the times. A bustle in our collective hedgerows.
But don't be alarmed, or even uneasy. Records like this one are great consolation. Juni is great company. Not dissimilar in some ways from the Britt Eklund character in The Whicker Man. the barman's beautiful daughter in that distinctly weird village where it's best not to tarry long.
This is distinctly uneasy listening. A spooky evening at your local Arts cinema, watching some European Horror classic you've always meant to see. Whatever you do, don't let it freak you out. Calm down. It's only a story. Or is it?
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