Milkweed are a duo whose music is as disconcerting and spooky as it is beguiling and enthralling. They mine obscure academic books for their lyrical source material to create uniquely odd and haunting sounding records. Their latest release, Folklore 1979, utilises strange tales, editors’ letters and obituaries from a folklore journal set against a back-drop of lo-fi folk music. It sounds a bit like scrolling the dial on an AM radio in Tudor England.
They’ll be performing as part of Sensoria Festival in the perfect setting of Bishops’ House. Support comes from The Bloody Bones.
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