UNHOLY MAJESTY

I picked this up very cheap at a car boot when I realised Rose Kemp was very much 'a relation' and it surprised me when I gave it a spin....but in a good way! I guess we shouldn't be taken aback that she started out having been steeped in mum and dads influences (is that dads violin in Dirty Glow?)...and I still maintain there are 'folk' stylings in some of the songs here...Milky White and its use of eastern scales meets old school prog/folk with a hint of kraut drone as one example. But, to my ears, the overall feel is of Jeff Buckley (Bitter and Sweet especially) fronted...ok, ok a solo artist can't be fronted...by the singer/s from Mostly Autumn on a very heavy prog day....having just listened to Jan Dukes de Grey....and this is no bad thing. Just don't expect any acoustic interludes and fingers in ears but lashings of a darker more gothic atmosphere....and next to zero 'space rock/psychedelia'...what's that categorisation all about?!

A fine album that blends influences into a coherent whole and better than the early average rating it has (currently 3.18) but I can't quite give it a 4...it is more a 3.5 ish.