Carrying in their step the old world, Brontëan debonair of a nobleman cantering on horseback across the moors to meet some French dignitaries, Manchester/London’s The Slow Country look and sound like the kind of band that only communicate by hand-written letters written in candlelight, and sealed in wax.
Whimsical fantasies aside, long-in-gestation debut single ‘Walking Song’ finally leaves the door ajar, just enough to give us a glimpse into The Slow Country’s nostalgic worlds. Taking the swishing folk-rock sounds of Nicks-era Fleetwood Mac, dipping them in tallow and leaving them to burn and brood on the mantlepiece, it’s a song that doesn’t so much as walk, rather swashbuckle and glide; rocking violins bouncing on the magnet-pull of guitar-circulations and goth-tinged vocal quests
Already notching up shows with The Last Dinner Party and Pem, we can safely file The Slow Country into this same lineage of artist seeking to provide solace against the ever-darkening morass of modernity; the kind that hark back to ‘simpler’ times and bring us closer towards the skills and spirits of a romanticised humanity.
Photo by Jack Thompson
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