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Album Review: Liam Gale & The Ponytails - The Lonely Throne

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"An immensely absorbing album, it draws the listener in with its transportive qualities."

The last few years, Liam Gale’s sound has evolved into a darker, more hypnotic form of psychedelic folk and blues music, culminating in the majestic and hypnotic The Lonely Throne.

There are shades of Devendra Barnhart and Tim Buckley in Gale’s explorations in building trance-like mantras around songs via a range of instrumentation that includes banjo, sitar and Eastern and African percussion. An immensely absorbing album, it draws the listener in with its transportive qualities, revealing a multitude of rhythmic and melodic diversions on each new listen.