The 9th studio release from Oddfellow’s is an album of earth, feet, marches, burials and the passing of time. It takes its title from one of William Blake’s many colourful names for Isaac Newton and belies the record’s themes of our relationship with the the ground below our feet, from land rights  and protest to the earth as our final resting place. The opening track – and single – was inspired by Nick Hayes’ The Book of Trespass, and is a passionate call to arms for new land rights, paying tribute to the mass trespass of Kinder Scout in 1932 and the Greenham Common protests. It also features – with their blessings – the voices of author Nick Hayes and performance artist Lone Taxidermist. Elsewhere on the album is an electronic re-interpretation of Melanie’s 1972 song Summer Weaving; a psychogeographical journey from the Suffolk coast to a remote Dutch island in the track Ameland, the breezy Pixies-esque Emily and the twelve minute epic, Beware My Love the Autumn People which, lyrically, jumps from the horror-writings of Ray Bradbury to themes of loss and the landscapes of Sussex.

The album ends with The Quiet Man and his Dutch Wife, a drastic re-working of a track from 2002’s Yellow-Bellied Wonderland, that finally explodes with the mantra, ‘we all wake up at the end of the world.’

The album is dedicated to Dave Mounfield, close friend of the band and best-known for his roles as Geoffrey and landlord Jack in BBC Radio 4’s Count Arthur Strong’s Radio Show.

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David Oddfellow 

Somewhere in the mountains of Sussex