Southern Tenant Folk Union: Pencaitland – review

(Johnny Rock Records)Since forming in 2006, Southern Tenant Folk Union have devoted themselves to melding English and Celtic folk sounds with the American bluegrass that sprang from them. Very Mumford/Marling zeitgeist, you might think, yet here they are on their fourth album, their impact on the pop scene as yet negligible. It's true that there are moments on Pencaitland when the Edinburgh-based septet come across as a better-than-average pub band: the layering of fiddle and mandolin on instru...

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