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Song by Toad

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Album review: Adam Stafford – ‘Trophic Asynchrony’: Falkirk composer moves to a deep, cyclical set of formal minimalism to address the ecological state we’re in

  • July 4, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
FALKIRK’S Adam Stafford, the film-maker and folk artist whose lockdown notebook album Diamonds Of A Horse Famine we warmly embraced here last summer – not least because it contained the…
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See: Adam Stafford – ‘Threnody For February Swallows’: grand avant-classical minimalism cautions against climate change

  • June 13, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
FALKIRK’S Adam Stafford, the film-maker and folk artist whose lockdown notebook album Diamonds Of A Horse Famine we warmly embraced here last summer – not least because it contained the…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Adam Stafford – ‘Diamonds Of A Horse Famine’: atmospheric folk set from the notebooks

  • October 26, 2020
  • Chris Sawle
Diamonds Of A Horse Famine is a lyrically precise and freewheelin' folk set, reviving a rediscovered notebook. Erotic Thistle contends for folk song of the year
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TRACK: Adam Stafford – ‘Diamonds Of A Horse Famine’: an eerie, dream-state blues

  • September 26, 2020
  • Chris Sawle
ADAM STAFFORD, Song, By Toad’s rather excellent Falkirk folk guitarist, has just released the title track of his forthcoming LP Diamonds of a Horse Famine for your delectation. And a…
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SEE: Adam Stafford – ‘Erotic Thistle’: a warm and confessional folk fingerpicking gem

  • August 14, 2020
  • Chris Sawle
FALKIRK’S Adam Stafford is one of them; he’s good at stuff. Grrr. He’s a multi-instrumentalist and film-maker, who necessarily has used the purdah of lockdown to create; for what else…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Fair Mothers – ‘In Monochrome’: marrow-deep dark-folk truth and nuance

  • August 3, 2020
  • Chris Sawle
THE OCCULT poet, painter and writer Ithell Colqohoun advanced the premise in her book, The Living Stones of Cornwall, that your local geology births you as much as nurture and…
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TRACK: Fair Mothers’ ‘Monochrome’ is unflinching, stark and so beautiful

  • July 17, 2020
  • Chris Sawle
YOU’LL never be able to accuse Kevin Allan, the creative force behind Scottish folk outfit Fair Mothers, of dashing off a quick, vapid pop hit for the lulz.  That isn’t…
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SEE: unsettling Aberdeenshire folk noir from Fair Mothers

  • June 15, 2020
  • Chris Sawle
A TREMULOUS, held guitar note, fed through fuzz and vibrato, with the raw quality of a wire fence shuddering in the wind; a darkly delicate piano arpeggio, as if remembered…
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Album Review: Song, By Toad -Split 12″ Series Vol. 7

  • May 25, 2019
  • Matt H
We’ve already lamented the announcement last year that Edinburgh-based Song, By Toad Records was calling it a day. If this is its last release then it’s appropriate that its one…
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News: Farewell Bastard Song, By Toad – a celebration

  • September 15, 2018
  • Matt H
A few days back Matthew Young who runs Song, By Toad Records let slip that he was calling it a day. While a decade of doing anything is a lot…
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