Goblin Band - Come Slack Your Horse! (2024)

Relative newcomers on the thriving UK traditional folk circuit, Goblin Band are a collection of queer, musicians based around Hobgoblin Music, a folk-instrument shop with a branch located in central London. Inspired as much by medieval and early music, as they are by the folk traditions of Britain and abroad, the six-piece set their stall on re-energising timeless, much-journeyed songs for an ever-growing new community of young folk enthusiasts.

Debut EP ‘Come Slack Your Horse!’ - featuring songs dating back as early as the mid-17th century - sees the band doing just that. While some tracks here - such as instrumental opener ‘Black Nag’ or
‘Widecombe Fair’ - express a boundless, escapist joy, and the band’s deeply infectious enthusiasm for traditional music, many tracks across the collection, despite their age, bear startling parallels with the travails of contemporary society.

Tracklist:
1.01 - Goblin Band - Black Nag (3:46)
1.02 - Goblin Band - The Prickle Holly Bush (6:08)
1.03 - Goblin Band - The Brisk Lad (4:26)
1.04 - Goblin Band - Birds in the Spring / May Morning Dew (11:14)
1.05 - Goblin Band - Turmut Hoer (1:55)
1.06 - Goblin Band - Widecombe Fayre (5:43)