Saturday, June 11, 2016

ALBUM OF THE DAY: Belbury Poly - The Willows (2004)


Belbury Poly is the main project from Jim Jupp (Eric Zann), the Ghost Box label co-founder responsible for the "Hauntology" genre.  The sound is heavily influenced by the library-music perfected by Delia Derbyshire in her BBC Radiophonic Workshop sessions.  While Belbury Poly derive the majority of their sound from the experimenters of early-electronics and vintage educational soundtracks, the added flavor for the Ghost Box label springs from graphic artist and co-founder Julian House, whose clinical, occult themes inject the "haunt" into Hauntology.  "The Willows" invokes images of magical, wooden phantasmagoria that feel properly British while skirting on a sense of paranoid wonder.

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