SAM AND THE PLANTS
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sam and the plants - In The Scare Shed
A limited new release from Lancastrian DIY folk experimenters Sam And The Plants, this EP follows up on recent album The Eft, cramming some fourteen tracks into a mere ten inches of vinyl. With every release Sam McLoughlin's ramshackle folk songwriting seems to grow and evolve into ever more peculiar shapes. 'In The Scare Shed' opens the EP with a typically odd, digressive piece of music, resembling a queasy soundtrack to some haunted fairground ride. The song is given a spluttering full-stop with a flurry of thorny electronic edits, leading subsequently into some other wonderfully skewed piece of acoustic meandering, given shape by analogue synth leads and a smattering of incidental ephemera that segues off down another indefinable musical tributary. It's never easy determining where one song ends and another begins, and vinyl always seems like the best format for getting well and truly lost in McLoughlin's scatterbrained compositions. The B-side gets off to a steady-handed start with 'Camtas', launching an instrumental psych-folk passage before the lethargic shanty of 'Should' plods wearily into life. After the sinister collage intermission of 'Wonderful', the EP's standout track 'Taxi' fires into life. Although it's brief by normal standards, this track probably represents some of McLoughlin's finest work to date, sounding like Elliott Smith with the voice of Frank Sidebottom. Tremendous, I'm sure you'll agree. There's far more music packed into this 10" than anyone could reasonably hope for, and it invites repeated listens as you try to soak up the EP's every roaming detail.
