Alula Down - Postcards from Godley Moor review | Jude Rogers's folk album of the month

The Guardian 80

(Self-released)
Kate Gathercole and Mark Waters mark the shape-shifting effects of Covid in rural Britain, mixing traditional music with post-rock and ambience

Lockdown albums have already been noted in pop, rock and rap, but August brings another, hazier, folkier creature to this peculiar summer. Alula Down are partners Kate Gathercole and Mark Waters, members of Herefordshire’s brilliant Weirdshire collective, who put on traditional, psychedelic and experimental music nights in simpler times. The duo have explored British ballads in the past, such as Master Kilby and Polly Vaughan, but they have also collaborated with author Max Porter on a stage version of his Booker-longlisted novel, Lanny, where they impressively worked their improvisational muscles.