Boduf Songs — Lion Devours the sun

There’s something deeply unnerve, macabre and down right evil about Boduf Songs second album of hushed folk come dark psychedelic  music. Eerier skeletally guitar tones are weaving with bloody tread with odd sound elements and bizarre ritual like air and wordless ambient dread. All joined by dense and often alarming and disturbed well spoken morbid vocals, that hove between been creepily melodic and murderessly bleak.

Boduf songs is all the work of  One person uk’s Southampton based Matthew sweet,  and the way he mixes all the elements into his own audio vision is darky perfect and unequal. This is clearly autumnal come winter music, that hovers in snow and ice bound English countryside, dark children’s tales and murders ballads.This music hums and resonates with images of ; black crows beaks hanging with bloody flesh, cobweb lined country house corridors that stench of death, haunted looking mourners shuffling into bone white churches, corpse like shapes bobbing in half frozen mill pounds, crowns made of rotting vegetation and decaying insect bodies.

There really are some general chilling moments along the way like the odd haunted cinematic at the end of The angle was pretty lame- that over lays strange chanted ,modified vocals over dry leaf crackle that bounces around your head. Or the start of Please ache for Redemptive- with its hovering dread and sudden long death like rattle, which will sure bring up Goosebumps. Also lyrically disturbing lines are littered though out- like the Line from the openers Lord of files “around your sex, black flies breeding- weaving deep, deep”. Though out the pace and the Execution  of each track is varied, it’s all install and soaked like bloody black suit in this creepy crawl unpleasantness. This is  folk  music for the darkly unwell- for the twisted vicious souls and the lost lights sail off down decaying well shafts.

This really is something rather darkly special about the Lion devours the sun- quite unlike anything you’ll have heard before- a darkly twisted and disturbed masterwork. clearly in it’s dark wonder one of the albums of the year- if not the last few years. Matthew sweet is the dark and grotesque prince of grim folk and The lion devours the sun his dark and twisted gospel to the world.