The Sprigs – Before I Glare Up At The Sun Through The Top Soil
Label: Infant Tree – IT006
Format: CDr, Album
Country: UK
Released: 2021
Genre: Electronic, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk, Abstract
The Sprigs! Wonderfully endearing stay-at-home DIY primitivisms cooked up in a deep South London suburb by this unknown act, housed on this humble and unassuming CDr. It’s as scrappy collage of naive keyboards, contact-mic rattle and frayed / guitar riffs with a certain British strain of woolly hermeticism, moments between moments sorta feel or the things that happen between actual songs. There prettier, bare-bones acoustic moments are perfectly offset with scruffier bits of muffled clatter, but each element constructs this perfect homey microcosm that leans closer to a feeling of optimism as opposed to some of the more claustrophobic route this stuff can take. It’s no secret that I personally hold this stuff high on a pedestal – music that was never destined to leave the house – but genuinely this is all I need right now. Best of 2021 so far! Limited to 50 – comes with instant download dropped into your account on purchase * new feature *. (Mint / New)
Tracklist
1 The Bobbies
2 From Flora, Not At All
3 His dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing
4 Hiding Under The Hills
5 Scrap Song
6 Cleaning Loop
7 Ear To The Rustling Reeds
8 Shoddy Car Chase Theme
