Album of the week: Native Harrow

October 29, 2022

Album of the week: Native Harrow - Old Kind Of Magic

Native Harrow - Old Kind Of Magic

Old Kind of Magic, the fifth longplayer from Native Harrow, arrives two years into their new life in Sussex, England. It is in this new place that they have self-produced a work that is simultaneously their most sweepingly expansive and delicately intimate album to date.

The songs contained herein move dramatically from the opening field recording of the Brighton seaside, to Laurel Canyon-esque folk-rock, piano and rhodes tinged soul-jazz balladry, oud and harpsichord driven 60s technicolour psychedelia, dense modernistic string quartet writing, and wide-as-the-western skies panoramic pedal steel with sepia-toned 12-string.

Old Kind of Magic will be released on 28th October 2022 via Loose, available on LP, CD, and digital.

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IN-STORE TOUR:

October 29 Union Music Store, Lewes @ 2pm

November 1 David’s Music, Letchworth @ 6pm

November 2 Truck Records, Oxford @ 6pm

November 3 Jumbo Records, Leeds @ 6pm

November 4 Spinning Discs, Sheffield @ 6pm

November 5 Vinyl Tap, Huddersfield @ 2pm

November 6 Jacaranda, Liverpool @ 5:30pm

November 17 Eel Pie Records, Twickenham @ 6pm

November 18 Sound Knowledge, Marlborough @ 7pm

November 19 Hundred Records, Romsey @ 2pm

November 20 Vinilo Record Store, Southampton @ 6pm

November 21 Southsea’s Pie & Vinyl, Southsea @ 1pm

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