Taste Test: Cattle & Cane recalibrate their ‘Birdsong’ with the Northern Orchestra
The dark-folk band enlist an orchestra for a live rendition of their song of hope.
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Life hangs wet and tired with darkness ⏤ the kind that’ll unsettle your skin and fold you inside out. We are the walking dead, you could say, fated to slog through the ever-rising, ever-threatening swamp waters. Musicians (and siblings) Helen and Joe Hammill come together as the dark-folk band Cattle & Cane to deliver a sliver of hope in such trying times. With “Birdsong,” which has been reconfigured to fit the silver screen in some jewelry heist rendezvous, the Hammills and their close-knit friends turn to the Northern Orchestra for a dank, spooky performance that tears away its roots and plasters on an even more ghoulish context. “As they sit on their thrones like kings that don’t know / They’ll take you to places you don’t wanna go,” Joe sings, his devilish tenor dragging you kicking and screaming into a fabled storybook. “Spin their webs of deception with hard blackened souls / With no care, with no clue which way we all go…”
“Birdsong,” originally from 2015’s debut LP, Home, is lifted from a brand new limited edition live collection, now for sale via BandCamp.
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