First sight: Marthas and Arthurs

A harmony-drenched quartet formed around a Herefordshire campfireWho are they?The two Arthurs are Matt Hart and Tom Ball, the two Marthas are Tom's sister Esther and Mary Douglas. They might have called themselves the Mamas and the Papas, but sadly some other harmony-drenched, melancholy-tinged, folk-rooted quartet nabbed that name decades ago.I take it they sound a bit like the Mamas and the Papas, then?Intentionally so – but much more rural. The four songs in their Apes in Aeroplanes EP are ...

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