Future Folk - Friendly Faces; Different Spaces review | Jude Rogers's folk album of the month

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(The Slow Music Movement)
Intimate tracks that jumble together traditional songs and instrumentals with experimental approaches

A slow movement offers a break in the pace of a sonata or symphony, a time to pause and reflect. This idea hovers around this feather-soft, psych-flavoured anthology of contemporary folk artists, as does the growing social yearning towards a less frenetic, more meaningful connection to the planet and the people around us. All this idealism may sound very analogue, but Future Folk is a celebration of DIY digital music-making, and how the internet enables communality (the Portuguese label, for environmental reasons, is digital-only). The album consists of 13 intimate tracks made in homespun studios or via remote online collaborations, jumbling together traditional songs and instrumentals with experimental approaches and productions.