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Listing Ship cleverly mix harmony with discord, traditional with contemporary, dark and haunting with bright and optimistic to come up with their wonderful signature sound and style. Listing Ship go places where many similarly ilked outfits fear to tread - they take on almost all aspects of folk music and by injecting their own distinctive twists and turns they create a bright and wonderful nu-folk for the now and the future. Don't for one minute think that Listing Ship are predictable or samey, don't even begin to think that they're just another folk band with nothing new to offer - Listing Ship have found a solution to combat the same-old, same-old syndrome that too many folk bands became stuck and lost in. Listing Ship inject new modern elements into the form, they add indie where before there was only reels and jigs, they add commercial appeal to a genre that had become somewhat torn apart by mis-use and abuse. Listing Ship have resuscitated folk music and brought new life through bold use of modern signatures and innovative application of both traditional instruments and those more associated with electric rock styles. The result is monstrous!! The result is something else!!
'A Hull Full Of Oil And Bone' is a massive jingling bag of folk booty, a treasure from well beyond the form, a splendid gift of joyous music from an innovative band of like-minded folksters dedicated to revitalising the folk idiom to bring you, at last, proper nu-folk. Utilising richly woven voices that lie at almost opposite ends of the vocal spectrum Listing Ship fill their songs with change and surprise as dynamics are toyed with and tested to the limit. Nothing within musical composition is sacred when Listing Ship come to play - the end result is breathtaking and oh so rewarding!
Listing Ship is a band with foresight, creativity and passion. They bring you folk music to take with you into the new era, they tackle the problem of a tiring musical genre by grasping it by the throat, ripping its guts out and offering re-birth through dedicated creativity. Folk music may never be the same again - look out for Listing Ship if you fancy something a bit different - try 'A Hull Full Of Oil And Bone' if you want to see how music can be changed without loosing its inherent genes. Fuckin' marvellous this - a real gem!!
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