Milkweed - Folklore 1979 '2024

Tracks list

On Milkweed’s Folklore 1979, tape hiss, false starts, and esoteric tales
gathered from a ‘70s folklore journal are repackaged into 11 minutes of
lo-fi backbeats that deconstruct the notion of folk. According to Milkweed,
anything can become folklore, as they told The Quietus earlier this month. The
mysterious duo (known only as G and R) call themselves “slacker
trad,” but the irruption of various samples and spoken word segments among
tradfolk vocal stylings might be called plunderfolk. These snippets rarely
adhere to a unified set of formal conventions—a radio segment on the
extinction and subsequent return of horses in America precedes vocalist
G’s noisy wail on “The Legend of the Pacing White Mustang,”
while “Letter to the Editor: Fairy Gold” layers a lilting flute
melody and twinkling chimes over a pensive drone.

Tracklist:
1.01 - Milkweed - My Father's Sheep is Dead (2:49) 
1.02 - Milkweed - The Legend of the Pacing White Mustang / Letter to the Editor:
Missing Chapbook Texts (1:44) 
1.03 - Milkweed - The Snake in Chinese Belief / A Letter from the President
(1:37) 
1.04 - Milkweed - Mordred, King Arthur's Son (1:37) 
1.05 - Milkweed - Letter to the Editor: Fairy Gold (0:44) 
1.06 - Milkweed - The Tree as a Kinship Symbol (1:35) 
1.07 - Milkweed - Obituaries (0:56)

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