ALBION RECORDS first release is a wondrous journey into the weird and wonderful world of folk music. Psych-folk, Wyrd-folk, Acid-Folk, Spooky Folk, Folktronica, or just plain unadorned Folk. Whatever you call it, the best folk is inherently strange. The 19 tracks here represent folk artists old and new. And when gathered here under the'Strange Folk' aegis it becomes clear that something unites them all. Many of them, such as THE INCREDIBLE STRING BAND, PENTANGLE, VASHTI BUNYAN and the FOREST emerged directly from the 1960s folk revival. Then there's a whole new generation of artists - EIGHTEENTH DAY OF MAY, ESPERS, ADEM, JAMES YORKSTON, DEVENDRA BARNHART and TUUNG. Listen to these and you're left in no doubt what VAN MORRISON meant when he once referred to a communal "folk memory" that exists for all artists to tap into.