Indie folk bops of the week, it’s the kind of music that’s going to get the heart pumping and emotions flowing. So let’s dive in ✨
Nemesis Uncle – The Sword
Nemesis Uncle makes “The Sword” a superb piece of alt-folk: shadowy, spaghetti-western strange, and impossible to forget.
“The Sword” follows a disillusioned pilgrim through a landscape built from acoustic dark matter: sparse, deliberately unhurried, all negative space and creeping atmosphere. It sits somewhere between Delta Blues and a 1960s Ennio Morricone score, and the tension between those two poles is exactly where the track lives. Definitely not the typical tune we get over here at BOPS, but all the better for it. It’s one of the most-streamed songs on the album “Songs Of Judas”, and has a brooding beauty that’s hard to resist.
Darren Purvis records and produces everything solo from a studio bunker in the Forest of Dean, and before this project he was fronting Germinal, a Welsh alt-rock band whose album “From Hibernation” built a real following. The move to Nemesis Uncle is a complete reset: existential literature, and experimental folk colliding in a way that owes nothing to current trends. Whatever button was pressed, the result is genuinely stunning and we’re eager to hear more. A great single.