Milkweed describe their sound as slacker-trad, which is both true and somehow insufficient. For three years Milkweed have refined a formula — taking existing source material (a folklore journal, a book on Welsh myths, another on Bronze Age human remains and most recently Thomas Kinsella’s masterfully stark translation of the Táin Bó Cúailnge), cutting up the words and feeding them through a woodchipper of lo-fi production and experimental folk music.
Website: milkweedfolk.bandcamp.com
Instagram: @mlkwd_
Image: Portrait of Milkweed. Photography by Poppy Warring.
