Daniel Bachman: The Morning Star review – an immersive tangle of guitars, drones and bells

(Three Lobed Recordings)In the song-filled world of folk reviewing, instrumental records often get lost in the noise. It doesn’t help that calling an instrumental record “folk” is a perilous business, unless it’s stuffed to the gills with jigs, hornpipes and reels. But many ambient albums hold traces of folk in their performance styles and sounds, and hot summers suit tangles of guitars, searing drones, and strange atmospheres. Take The Morning Star, the new album by Da...

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