The Coterie - A Swing To FolkThe Coterie was an ephemeral folk group from Drimnagh, a southern suburb of Dublin, with hippy and psych touches from the late 60s. They were signed by Emerald at around the age of 18. This label, which released folk music among other genres, had a distribution relationship with Decca until shortly before the latter was taken over by Polygram. Emerald released a single and the group's debut and only LP, A Swing to Folk, a captivating record with

Movementt (in association with Warp)

and continued in 2011 with 'Coracle'åÊ This album is an accumalation of four years of studio exploration

there was only one group of musical mavericks that clearly defined them

“No Flag”

London's National Maritime Museum recently opened a new £35m exhibition wing

‘Hand Of Glory’ is not like their other albums but then again none of their albums are alike

The plangent sensitivity of ‘Testing the Alarm’ adds playful wordplay (“lallygag in shrubbery”) before live favourite ‘You Better Start Scrubbing’ arrives on album in a joyously abrasive blast of no-wave vigour

yet the recordings proved once and for all that his interests lay in musical transfigurations rather than preservation -- Fahey was not afraid to use these old tunes as raw material

Vengeful Inebriates and dubious Parenting Skills

SUNN O))) also commissioned Swiss designer/artist Angela LaFont Bollinger to create the cover artwork

The song’s lyrics are a mandatory memorization assignment to this day by MCs learning their craft

The B side of this single