Name: Flowers Rot, Bring Me Stones
Brand: Moundabout

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

LAUNCH245

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Colour

brown

Colour details

Megalithic Brown/Clear Specks

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Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-09-02

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

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Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

5056321640710

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / brown

Artist

Moundabout

Genre GB

Psychedelic

Label GB

Rocket Recordings

Moundabout is the new folk project of Paddy Shine of Gnod, recorded with Phil Masterson in Ireland, but the words ‘new’ and ‘folk’ need to be treated with care here. Listening to <i>Flowers Rot, Bring Me Stones </i>is like entering a trance state while staring at one of the Knowth spiral carvings. Like following a ridged epidermal loop inwards, tracing the spiral of an ammonite towards the centre or peeling back the layers of an onion, immersion in this great album sees you travelling both temporally backwards and spatially inwards simultaneously. The listener is invited to see folk – orally transmitted music often concerning national identity and culture played on traditional instruments – as a glowing helix of a continuum stretching way back beyond the revival of the 1950s and 1960s to an eternal vibrancy that predates classical antiquity and Irish civilisation itself.As the album moves the listener, they are taken on a geographical and geological journey as well as psychological and spiritual, traveling inwards from the coast (‘The Sea’), as well as down beneath the strata (“How many bog bodies are waiting to be found?”) And when you have been primed, they take you all the way back to commune with older gods on the album’s epic centrepiece, ‘Dick Dalys Dance’, creating the kind of prehistoric drones and trance-inducing rhythms that the echoing, celestially aligned corridors of the Brú na Bóinne were built to amplify. This is not new music but the deep sensations it provokes will be new to most listeners.

Flowers Rot, Bring Me Stones

Music GB