Southern Tenant Folk Union

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Brighthelmstone Promotions are delighted to present the wonderfully talented collective Southern Tenant Folk Union.

Their new album ‘Hello Cold Goodbye Sun’ is their fifth since they formed in 2006 and contains a set of songs that build on some of the soundscape folk from the acclaimed 4th album Pencaitland as well as showcasing the growing songwriting, instrumental and vocal talent from within the band.

Artistically successful their albums have been praised in The Guardian, Independent, Sunday Times, Mojo, Uncut and Irish Times. Often heard on national radio shows across UK and Eire they have also performed live in session on BBC Radio 2, Radio 4’s Loose Ends, BBC Ulster and RTE One national TV/radio. Their live show is exciting, engaging and in their hands ‘bluegrass can effortlessly be blended with other genres – folk, roots, americana – to make a potent, timeless sound’.

What the press are saying about the new album ‘Hello Cold Goodbye Sun‘

“The Scottish folk group Southern Tenant Folk Union presents its most potent offering since 2010′s excellent The New Farming Scene”
ANDY GILL, 4 STARS, THE INDEPENDENT

“Going to inordinate lengths to emulate Krautrock gods such as Can, the five-string banjo of Pat McGarvey is harnessed to a tea towel to recreate the arpeggios of the analogue sequencers pioneered by Tangerine Dream, and it sounds fantastically dreamy”
COLIN SOMERVILLE, 4 STARS, SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY

“Southern Tenant Folk Union find themselves attracted to the horror realm on this atmospheric album – to horror film soundtracks and to the horrors of modern society…which makes a bright, Beatlesy response to shadowy authority figures, or to both in the case of Crash, which recreates the creepy synth arpeggios used in 1970s horror scores on a five-string banjo”
FIONA SHEPHERD, 4 STARS, THE SCOTSMAN

“Even though the year is a few days old I’d be surprised if this album, their fifth to date, doesn’t figure in our next annual Top 20 Albums list”
JOE LEPPER, 9/10, NEON FILLER