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the eftreviews"blending traditional song craft with the quietly avant-garde to beautiful effect."- record collector "he has fashioned something unique and magical. It is rare to find an album that works on so many levels" - music week "There's a mass of strange, beautiful and magical sounds to absorb from this 21 track long player. An incredibly accomplished album" - norman records "from relative pretty, small scale guitar and voice melodies, to woven tapestries of found sound errata and electronic elements.... they have their own unique vibe going on that's rewarding and unlike anything else!"- dusty groove "the music he creates on the eft is without doubt, organic, weathered and wonderful. the home grown sensibility that suffuses his music lends proceedings a near tangible sense of intimacy....but be warned: this is not sickly sweet confection." - flux magazine "His sounds are so rural on his debut album The Eft, it's almost as if all his instruments are made from bracken." - fat roland "A masterpiece of acid folk. It's a little bit Kevin Ayers, a little bit olde English, a little bit BBC Radiophonic Workshop. 21 tracks crammed into 36 minutes. A magnificent debut!"- who wrote this? "Sam and the Plants’ music is packed with sound and imagination for our exploration, and throws aside the barriers of normality" - chimp mag "You might consider listening to The Eft as being a little bit like rooting through someone's messy attic: it's full of strange, intriguing bric-a-brac.....The openness to all manner of avenues for sonic exploration makes The Eft far more densely constructed than its thirty-something minutes suggest and there's much to be discovered over repeat listens. Smashing"- boomkat "Sam spends his time making fractured folk songs with a wide range of mutant mechanical music machines....thus resulting in his dazzling debut, The Eft. Drenched in sanity questioning samples." JC- the crack magazine "incredible rich interesting sounds with naturally connected spontaneous evolutions, with circus, pixies and kitchen and modern wizard associations.Fantastic !" - psychedelicfolk.com |