Folxlore
Folxlore uses eerie sound design and a lyrical style to frame the everyday lives of LGBTQIA+-identifying people in Glasgow as fictional horror. “Werehouse” features a man recounting his first romantic experience as though it’s an interrogation, in which he grows paranoid that he’ll be caught. “Between” centers on a trans man riding the subway who panics when people are looking at him, and then worries that something’s wrong when they don’t. In “Static,” listeners go inside the mind of a new mother who is so shell-shocked from having a baby that she can’t sleep—or is plagued by nightmares when she does. The stories act alternately as metaphors, exaggerations, or totally realistic portrayals of the challenges of being gay, nonbinary, or trans. On paper, this collection might sound unpleasant or even hard to endure. But Folxlore is an energizing listen that draws you in with its dreamy, poetic feel and mysterious sonic settings.
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Folxlore uses eerie sound design and a lyrical style to frame the everyday lives of LGBTQIA+-identifying people in Glasgow as fictional horror. “Werehouse” features a man recounting his first romantic experience as though it’s an interrogation, in which he grows paranoid that he’ll be caught. “Between” centers on a trans man riding the subway who panics when people are looking at him, and then worries that something’s wrong when they don’t. In “Static,” listeners go inside the mind of a new mother who is so shell-shocked from having a baby that she can’t sleep—or is plagued by nightmares when she does. The stories act alternately as metaphors, exaggerations, or totally realistic portrayals of the challenges of being gay, nonbinary, or trans. On paper, this collection might sound unpleasant or even hard to endure. But Folxlore is an energizing listen that draws you in with its dreamy, poetic feel and mysterious sonic settings.
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