Milkweed describe their sound as slacker-trad, which is both true and somehow insufficient. They’ve refined a formula : taking existing source material (a folklore journal, a book on Welsh myths, another on bronze age human remains), cutting up the words and feeding them through a woodchipper of lo-fi production and experimental folk music.
Milkweed follow the rich creative line that runs between British traditional music and the songs and tunes of the eastern United States. But their scope is global and rooted in deep time, and their music ricochets between bewitching folk music and disconcerting hauntological experimentation.