u/Previous-Breadfruit7

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One of my favorite when it comes to campy dark folk/ folkpunk is Harley Poe, his album Satan Sex and No Regrets was a delightful tongue in cheek collection of murder ballads and ruminations on horror tropes. I really love this guy's stuff and can find videos of him playing live music to pretty large audiences

What happened to him? I noticed a few albums ago the production quality of the recordings had a huge shift downwards. Lost and Losing It was a powerful album, a lot more serious than his usual stuff, iirc he was grappling with a divorce and depression/mental issues.

The most recent album Big feelings is the worst offender to me, it just felt really phoned in. No hate intended at all, I'm just curious if they had a studio or engineer at one point they no longer have access to now? Or why the music and lyrics kinda shifted?

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Looks super cool, also super moody. There's an emailing list you can sign up for as well

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When Lingua Ignota (aka Kristin Hayter) released Sinner Get Ready in 2021, it immediately sent shock waves through my soul. Extreme exploration of abuse, trauma, the violence of misogyny; singing anthems for survivors. Citing eternal retribution against those who would hurt us.

"I'm trying to construct something that speaks the unspeakable, and so I use this sort of amalgam of musical devices to make my own sonic language which is meant to also be ecstatic or outside the self."

This was her final album under this name. "This music has been excruciating to perform, and I know that what is healthiest for me is to stop performing it." Sinner Get Ready is just an insane mix of classical and baroque style compositions with much harsher noise, uncompromising and terrifying.

Sinner Get Ready is one of the most interesting and powerful records released in the 2020s so far, in my humble opinion. Go listen, but brace yourself

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When I first heard this it felt like I was having a breakdown. It has such a bleak, crushing, oppressive atmosphere despite being folksy instrumentation drenched in reverb. The one song where they're discussing spirits speaking as polyglots genuinely gives me goosebumps. When I was depressed it was there to make me feel worse.

There's something really special about it, while I love Have A Nice Life's music this just hits me differently.

"While thematically related to his other work--dealing with subjects like suicide, death and the paranormal--Giles Corey feels more personal, with impressive shifts from quiet desperation to cathartic outburst. Over the years the album has gained a fervent following, and has sometimes been compared to a religious experience. It is a dark yet purgative enterprise not for the frail of heart." - the cd listing

I wish there was more evil ghostly folk music that was also extreme and sad and scary. Do you have any recommendations?

Giles Corey - Self Titled

I couldn't find a sub with discussion around the genres I was looking for, so I made one.

From our description: Discussion and posts around esoteric folk and folk adjacent music. We see "darkfolk" as more of an idea than a literal genre. Atmospheric, ghostly, often drawing inspiration from occult imagery. Artists like Giles Corey, Nicole Dollanganger, Mount Eerie, Chelsea Wolfe, or even Agalloch.

Feel free to browse, or contribute to our fledgling tiny community of like 3 people who care about this stuff.

When I see an artist doing something like this, I personally think it's really fucking cool. It's exciting, creates more intimate performances (which imo really works well with that genre of indie alt folk), and it gives people shows in cities and towns were larger artists often don't come through.

To add to this, the context that her album and stage set up seem "alien" or extraterrestrial themed (fitting into her previous work well), make the choices of cities feel extremely intentional and idk thematically appropriate.

But if you go online, I'm seeing a lot of vitriol directed offhandedly at Phoebe herself but primarily driven by her fans behavior of trying to find shows before they are announced and forming lines many hours before the show starts at a hundred seat capacity venue.

I guess I'm curious about other opinions, on tiktok her fans are also mad at her because 9 times out of ten they waited for hours and then because of the first come first served basis of it all were not able to fit into the venue, and they're blaming her and her team for that lol