The Cave Singers - Welcome Joy

The Cave Singers have completed their follow up record, with all the distinctiveness
and beauty of debut ‘Invitation Songs’, but with extra kick and influences.

The Cave Singers’ first album ‘Invitation Songs’ was released
early 2008 to hearty plays from the likes of Radio 1’s Zane Lowe
and a warm flurry of critical acclaim. NME declared it a “post-folk
masterpiece of a debut”, a fitting though rather unexpected
description for a Seattle act formed from the ashes of three
disbanded hardcore / post-punk bands (Quirk from Hint, Hint, Lund
from Cobra High and Fudesco from Pretty Girls Make Graves
and before that Murder City High). Perhaps it explains the energy
and edge that soars through even their prettiest of folk-laced songs

‘Welcome Joy’ is a gorgeous, rich folky stew hitting musical
touchstones from ‘Led Zeppelin III’ (think ‘Bron Yr Aur Stomp’)
to Iron & Wine, Fleet Foxes, Bon Iver, and Will Oldham, with
a healthy dollop of the more mournful Stevie Nicks songs from
Fleetwood Mac’s mid-’70s period.

Produced by Colin Stewart (Black Mountain, Destroyer,
Ladyhawk), the album is far richer and more interesting sounding
than their debut. The band performs their dramatic, forlorn and
occasionally triumphant music in a wonderfully autumnal haze.

“It’s a progressive/retro approach that has been done before
(Grandaddy, Midlake, et al) but rarely with this level of stripped
down and simple panache” - Independent On Sunday; “Let’s
welcome The Cave Singers as they come blinking into the sunlight” - The Sun.

Tracklisting: Summer Lights * Leap * At The Cut * Shrine *
Hen Of The Wounds * Beach House * VV * I Don’t Mind *
Townships * Bramble

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