With a musical trajectory that spans fi ve years, The Future Kings of England has emerged from the endless fields of Suff olk to become a renowned force in psychedelic music.
On the band’s second full-length, The Fate of Old Mother Orvis, the members of The Future Kings of England (guitarist Ian Fitch, bassist Karl Mallett, drummer Simon Green and ably assisted by their producer Steve Mann on keyboards) have wed the post-psychedelic atmosphere of their 2005 self titled debut with acid tinged folk excursions and acoustic woodland eeriness.
Produced and recorded by long-time Future King’s co-conspirator Steve Mann at Attic Studios in Suff olk, The Fate of Old Mother Orvis is a haunting panorama of soaring melodies and folk inspired darkness. Bursts of mind-bending notes ring out across orchestral guitar squalls and the lands of Suff olk’s dark
past ooze through the sweeping dirge and drone of the band’s spacious ambience.
Conceptually, the album invokes Suff olk’s past. Harnessing infl uences that span centuries of the literary and esoteric history of East Anglia. Th e Fate of Old Mother Orvis merges the ancient and the modern in a non-linear incantation of colluding elements.
In all, Th e Fate of Old Mother Orvis is a breathtaking cinematic sound experience.
