This album was in my timeline this weekend, did not realize I was in for "a collection of nu-ancient trad bangers”. From the Bandcamp:
"...Archer reconstructs some of the oldest songs in the English canon with fractured, future-facing production. Working from archival ballads of obsession, devotion and loss, she warps fiddle lines, processes her own vocals and drives the material with pulsing drum machines and colourful synth arrangements."
Frankie Archer - The Dance of Death (2026)
9 track album
Frankie Archer curating a Halloween themed Freak Zone Playlist? She's great she is!
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That's me not going to bed like I should do for another hour.
I am getting OBSESSED with Frankie Archer's new EP Pressure and Persuasion - folk songs reinterpreted with a feminist slant. Here's Barbara Allen - the song is about a man who dies because a woman doesn't love him back, and Frankie's added chorus is amazing #FrankieArcher #FolkMusic #BarbaraAllen
Frankie Archer, "Pressure & Persuasion"
New northeast folktronica goodness about more put-upon ladies.
Listening to new singles this morning:
The Smile, "Foreign Spies / Zero Sum"
Frankie Archer, "Barbara Allen"
U2, "ZOO TV Live in Dublin 1993 EP"
... while soaking up the sun on a Greek island beach. Pretty great way to start the day!
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Frankie Archer:
🎵 Lovely Joan
track by Frankie Archer
Listening to Frankie Archer, "Never So Red"
Debut EP of electronic folk music from the northeast. Really enjoying this, although it's often really dark.
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the buff who fell to earth
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