An eerie, lost folk horror soundtrack glinting in the sunshine.” The Guardian
“Folorn, hypnotic drone hymns for an ancient haunted England.” Mojo
Since her first solo work manifested in 2018, Alison Cotton has quietly become one of the UK’s most extraordinarily evocative aural explorers, building eerily arcane tapestries of supernatural beauty from her multi-layered viola, incantatory vocals and harmonium. If Alison’s chosen main instruments have predictably drawn comparisons with The Marble Index-era Nico and Cale, these ultimately prove superfluous as the cathedral vault soundscapes Alison crafts with producer Mark Nicholas soar into a magical realm entirely of her own making, haunted by folk’s dark ancient spirit at the same time as providing a much needed time suspending antidote to tumultuous modern times.
Based in London, Alison made her first records with Mark as The Left Outsides, 2016’s untitled collaborative album with Michael Tanner (‘Plinth’) pointing at her future path with its quietly levitating drones. Alison’s startling debut album ‘All Is Quiet at the Ancient Theatre’ arrived like a vividly bottled medieval ghost visitation in 2018, its mesmerizing autumnal drone reveries including the ten minute title track, ‘The Last Sense to Leave Us’, ‘The Bells of St Agnes’ and ‘A Tragedy in the Tithe Barn’.
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