Milkweed
NEWS
- 18/12/2025
New signature : Milkweed (UK)
Milkweed describe their sound as slacker-trad, which is both true and somehow insufficient. For three years Milkweed have refined a formula – taking existing source material (a folklore journal, a book on Welsh myths, another on bronze age human remains and most recently Thomas Kinsella’s masterfully stark translation of the Táin Bó Cúailnge), cutting up the words and feeding
BIO
Milkweed describe their sound as slacker-trad, which is both true and somehow insufficient. For three years Milkweed have refined a formula – taking existing source material (a folklore journal, a book on Welsh myths, another on bronze age human remains and most recently Thomas Kinsella’s masterfully stark translation of the Táin Bó Cúailnge), cutting up the words and feeding them through a woodchipper of lo-fi production and experimental folk music.
On the face of it their musical concerns are transatlantic – they follow the rich creative line that runs between British traditional music and the songs and tunes of the eastern United States. In reality their scope is global, and rooted in deep time, with influences from prehistory bleeding into a troubled and troubling modern era. As a result their music doesn’t sit easily anywhere, but ricochets between bewitching folk music and disconcerting hauntological experimentation.
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PRESS
Loud & Quiet
« An early AOTY contender…Milkweed are the crown jewel of the UK’s current vibrant folk revival. »
MOJO
« A sort of Karen Dalton in dub…like an Alan Lomax recording of an Appalachian Séance. You like it weird? They like it weirder. »
Nowe idzie od morza
« Milkweed offer lo-fi ‘finds’ from Irish mythology: short, fragmented forms, banjo, primitive beats, noise and crackles like a cassette tape being pulled out. A voice like a spell, lyrics cut and processed – like a contemporary folk spirit heard on a distorted radio. »
Crack Magazine
« Get weirder still, conjuring warped Appalachian soundscapes from the bones of Irish mythology’s Táin Bó Cúailnge. »
CONTACT
Booking (France) : Julien Bitaudeau
Promo : Amaury Cornut
TAGS
Folklore 1979
DISCOGRAPHIE
Remscéla
Broadside Hacks2025
LP / K7 / Digital
Folklore 1979
Not on Label2024
K7 / Digital
The Mound People
Not on Label2023
K7 / Digital
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Folklore 1979
NEWS
- 18/12/2025
New signature : Milkweed (UK)
Milkweed describe their sound as slacker-trad, which is both true and somehow insufficient. For three years Milkweed have refined a formula – taking existing source material (a folklore journal, a book on Welsh myths, another on bronze age human remains and most recently Thomas Kinsella’s masterfully stark translation of the Táin Bó Cúailnge), cutting up the words and feeding
BIO
Milkweed describe their sound as slacker-trad, which is both true and somehow insufficient. For three years Milkweed have refined a formula – taking existing source material (a folklore journal, a book on Welsh myths, another on bronze age human remains and most recently Thomas Kinsella’s masterfully stark translation of the Táin Bó Cúailnge), cutting up the words and feeding them through a woodchipper of lo-fi production and experimental folk music.
On the face of it their musical concerns are transatlantic – they follow the rich creative line that runs between British traditional music and the songs and tunes of the eastern United States. In reality their scope is global, and rooted in deep time, with influences from prehistory bleeding into a troubled and troubling modern era. As a result their music doesn’t sit easily anywhere, but ricochets between bewitching folk music and disconcerting hauntological experimentation.
LINE UP
LINKS
PRESS
Loud & Quiet
« An early AOTY contender…Milkweed are the crown jewel of the UK’s current vibrant folk revival. »
MOJO
« A sort of Karen Dalton in dub…like an Alan Lomax recording of an Appalachian Séance. You like it weird? They like it weirder. »
Nowe idzie od morza
« Milkweed offer lo-fi ‘finds’ from Irish mythology: short, fragmented forms, banjo, primitive beats, noise and crackles like a cassette tape being pulled out. A voice like a spell, lyrics cut and processed – like a contemporary folk spirit heard on a distorted radio. »
Crack Magazine
« Get weirder still, conjuring warped Appalachian soundscapes from the bones of Irish mythology’s Táin Bó Cúailnge. »
DISCOGRAPHIE
Remscéla
Broadside Hacks2025
LP / K7 / Digital
Folklore 1979
Not on Label2024
K7 / Digital
The Mound People
Not on Label2023
K7 / Digital
CONTACT
Booking (France) : Julien Bitaudeau
Promo : Amaury Cornut