#dark folk music

[miksweety]

New music is coming my pretties, straight from the dark velvet heart of this hardworking gal.

DARK NATURE drops 31.10.23 🎃

Photo: Ben Wulf Photography

Hair: Anne Veck

Styling: Chloe Haywood London

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Bob Dylan eating breakfast (and the table) in Birmingham, England, 1966 ♡ Photographed by Barry Feinstein

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[iwouldexistwithoutyou]

Talor Smith in "The Lobotomy Room" October 29th 2010 Credit: Erin Raby "The Ridges" were a band from Athens Ohio and more specifically Ohio University that I was lucky enough to be attending college at while they were playing shows. In Athens there is a decommissioned Asylum that was named the "Athens Lunatic Asylum", it is known by locals as "The Ridges". The concept of this band (as I understood it) was that they were the ghosts of those who died in that asylum, returned to serenade us with their ghostly songs. Their sound I describe as "Ghost Folk", they incorporated cello, violin, brushed drums, and guitar into their sound and had three core members Victor Rasgaitis, Talor Smith, and Johnny Barton, but they very often would invite guest musicians on stage with them to play as well. Their songs were good, I mean their songs were damn good. Their music evoked a mood that I haven't quite been able to find since and I highly recommend giving them a listen. This album I've linked here was actually recording within the building "The Ridges". At the end of this post are some old photos (their photoshoots were also beautiful) where you can see the theme they were going for captured visually. One of my favorite things they ever did that sadly I just missed was when they played an eerily lit concert in the actual building of the asylum that is their namesake. They also did really cool video promos for their upcoming shows that are awesome performances in their own right. The last time I saw them was at a show in Dayton Ohio at Blind Bobs in 2013. The ridges stopped playing shows sometime in 2015 and their website domain was released in 2017. I am not sure why they stopped playing but most likely as all bands do it became too much work to keep up with their careers evolving. I hope you'll enjoy the ghosts of the past with me, pour yourself a whiskey, light a candle or two, and give "The Ridges" a listen. You won't regret it.

"I can't sleep alone You don't know the feeling You don't sleep alone Your bed isn't freezing" "You never existed, so you don't have a soul You don't have a soul, so you can't be a ghost You can't be a ghost, so you can't haunt my home You're just a figment of my imagination" "When I invented love I never meant for anyone to get hurt It seemed like a good idea After all it was only a word"

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"be good to me" I beg of him

"be good to me" I beg of him

be good, be good, be good, be good, be good, be good, be good, be good, be good, be good

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‘7000 tears’

[genniearts]

Let there be pain and eternal battle, but always with you

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Hope was a letter I never could send. Well, love was a country we couldn't defend

Big Black Car - Gregory Alan Isakov

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Project sekai fan unit :3

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[soapcan18]

EVERYONE I JUST NOTICED SOMETHING REALLY COOL

So these are the Anemoi album covers, right? Do you notice a similarity between all of them?

Yes, they all have animals surrounded by a gold ring on them. Obviously there is a lot of symbolism involved with these specific animals and their respective albums, but that’s a whole other conversation.

Right now I want to point out the gold ring— more importantly, how is it changing as the albums progress?

In Notos, the thicker portion of the ring is in the bottom right corner.

In Eurus, that portion is in the top right corner.

In Boreas, it’s in the top left corner.

And in Zephyrus, it’s in the bottom left corner.

THE RING IS GOING IN A CIRCUIT!!!

The thick portion of the ring is moving counterclockwise with each album! And if you go back to Notos after Zephyrus, it’ll be right back at where it started!

This is yet another symbol of the Anemoi albums’ themes of change, cycles, etc. AND IT’S HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT!

How COOL is that??? I just noticed!!

This is even crazier when you add on the fact that the final song you listen to, after going through all the albums, is Rounds.

And what is the ring doing? MAKING ROUNDS!! Going around and around as you keep replaying the albums, repeating the cycle of summer to fall to winter to spring to summer over and over again just as The Oh Hellos intended to convey :)

[iiinkos]

im feeling like listening to music that makes me want to fight the government *opens up the oh hellos*

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Tracklist:

Intro

Dead Hearts

In The Room Where You Sleep

Buried in Water

My Body's a Zombie For You

Pa Pa Power

Young & Tragic

Paper Ships

Lose Your Soul

Werewolf Heart

Dead Man's Bones

Flowers Grow Out of My Grave

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[miksweety]

The Rose - Live Action - Part 2

‘I saw the light begin to fade

Like the smile on your face

I held the rose and felt the thorn

I hurt myself to keep you strong’

📽️ Original footage from our award-winning animated music video.

🎶 Song & Performance: Michaela Betts

💃 Dancer & Choreography: @chrissy_brooke

🎬 Direction & Edit: @bunty_ai