The folk explosion continues unabated and the latest young upstarts to join the fray are Keston Cobblers’ Club. Their claim to difference is their ‘desire to create contemporary, catchy music fused with the wholesome grittiness of traditional folk’. It makes me think of Hovis Seeded Best of Both.
The brass that gives ‘Beam’ and ‘A Scene of Plenty’ a sepiatone tint builds on that connotation, too, but not until after the initial surprise of the lead track ‘Children with Socks on their Heads’, which is tetchy and off-beat and shifts from shanty to choral waltz. ‘We Will Heel Your Soles’ is a surging swell of toe-tapping nostalgia, contrasting with the delicately plucked ‘The Castle’ that rounds off an EP that might not exactly shatter the folk mold, but it’s more than passable.
Keston Cobblers’ Club Online
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