From the epic Broomfield Wager through to the fantastic Spanish Ladies, this album is more than a few songs and tunes chucked together, it is a folk masterpiece performed by some extremely talented musicians.
Dr Faustus play their music with a cart load of energy and sing with great passion. Songs such as the Grey Mare have the added bonus of being educational as well. Each voice on the album is quite different, yet the harmonies in the likes of Broomfield Wager and Spanish Ladies are fantastic.
This is one of the first folk albums I showed genuine interest in and is still played regularly in our household. It is quite ’traditional’ compared to the likes of Bellowhead and Seth Lakeman, but newcomers to the genre should certainly not take this to mean boring. If you like cracking tunes and songs about love, sex, murder, violence and animals then this is the album for you.