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The Eighteenth Day Of May

Psychedelic folk has lost it's new champions in the form of this young group based in London but hailing originally from Sweden, America and even the wilds of Oxford. As of January 2007 they are no more, they split whilst writing material for their second album...

They listed their influences as Shirley Collins, Martin Carthy, Jean Richie, Pentangle, The Trees and the early Fairport Convention. Also the Velvet underground and the Charlatans (San Francisco ones, not the baggy mancs). The resulting English folk meets dreamy psychedelic rock is a surprisingly contemporary sound, and pretty unique too.

© the eighteenth day of may

The Eighteenth Day Of May are right out there in terms of doing it alone, individual enough for there to be a danger of making beardy folk fanatics tut and the indie rock fan scratch their head. In substance what they are doing is exactly what Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds do so well; setting traditional song and themes against a rich and distinctive soundscape, that's no mean achievement for a debut album.

The bubbling strange brew they created is very exciting indeed, best savoured outdoors on a warm summer's evening. We thought that they had a great future, sadly we will never know what they could have achieved. Search out their albums whilst you can!