Definitely a very strong Bon Iver / Fleet Foxes influence at play here but that doesn't stop these tracks from being any less lovely. Modern mythology from the second Mappe Of record The Isle Of Ailynn.
Holding a record's evident source against it only holds up when there's slavish imitation at play. But the album seems like a genuine quest for beauty and hits several bullseyes on its odyssey.
This is clearly a concept of some kind given the record cover, song titles and lyrical concerns, something that generally has little interest for me unless you're talking Ziggy Stardust rather than the goblins and elves Prog and Folk conceits of the early Seventies. This is clearly far more indebted to the latter and may well be taken to the hearts by Dungeons & Dragons devotees. I'm certainly not one of those but apart from a couple of eight or nine minute aberrations towards the album's close when it disappears up its own exterior, I liked and lost myself in much of the record.
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