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With its fourth album Castings (vhf records), Fern Knight weaves an uncommon sound from far-flung musical roots. Under classically trained cellist/guitarist/vocalist Margaret Ayre’s unwavering direction, this DC-Philadelphia quartet continues to gracefully color her tightly arranged, smartly produced songs with echos of British folk leanings in the manner of The Strawbs, Sourdeline’s ancient trad-folk and old-school riffage in the vein of English progressive cult-rockers Asgard.

Juxtapositions of the arcane and modern in her music and life in Philadelphia drew Margaret to pen Castings, a song cycle exploring how the ancient divinatory art of the Tarot and the well-worn archetypes contained therein continue to flow through present day society.

The album was recorded in a Gothic mansion in the Brandywine valley in PA in a snowy part of January 2009. A perfect time and place to record an album influenced as much by metal as Medieval–the old-soul surroundings of the stone and wood-walled rooms lent themselves well to the resulting sounds captured by bandmember Jim Ayre.

Castings has a warm, analog feel, with looser and louder performances from the quartet than on their 2008 eponymous album. The group stretches out on rockier fare like “The Poisoner,” growling with fuzz, while leaving plenty of room for softer moments of beautiful clarity. There’s “jammy” moments here, but everything is expertly sized and placed.
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