“But when you wake up from a dream there’s no getting back there” — the poignancy of passing time, the magic dissolving, is a recurring theme of folk noiristes SONGDOG. Lives fade away like a half-heard whisper behind the curtain in the cinema on a Saturday afternoon, love disappears in a taxi on a rainy night, they’re “growing old in a snakepit”, yet the spirit remains defiant in their uncompromising, explicit lyricism. Songdog are Lyndon Morgans and Karl Woodward (both from Blackwood, Wales) and Dave Paterson (originally from Dundee), whose delicate, stripped-down instrumen…
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