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Brighton-based, Welsh instrumentalist Gwenifer Raymond is set to announce her third studio album to be released September 5th on Canadian label We Are Busy Bodies. Last Night I Heard the Dog Star Bark is a hybrid of the ancient and the futuristic where the arcane etchings of occult folk horror fuse with the unfathomable equations of the cosmos. A big bang, yes, but also an atom cleaved. On her latest album, this celebrated new champion of the finger-picked guitar looks upwards, outwards. somewhere beyond. Now the landscape is mapped – its knotted woodlands, its aurora-crowned mountains, its tangled undergrowth – Gwenifer Raymond hears the stars call.
Last Night I Heard the Dog Star Bark is a natural evolution for such an intensely questing, personally excavating artist. The album is Raymond’s first since 2020’s Strange Lights Over Garth Mountain, which drew widespread acclaim for its repurposing of Mississippi blues and John Fahey’s intricate Americana to embody Raymond’s roots in rural South Wales and her interests in folk horror and the avant garde, a new form dubbed Welsh Primitive. Now, on her forthcoming album, Raymond finds herself conjuring the work of pioneering rocket scientists, the words of fictional hobo prophets and the concepts of mathematical infinity.
Dinked 352
● “Celestial Dog-Bone” color vinyl *
● 12” x 12” print designed by Steve Krakow & signed by Gwenifer Raymond
● Set of stickers designed by Casey Raymond *
● Limited pressing of 400 *
*EXCLUSIVE to Dinked Edition
Also available on standard Black vinyl and CD.
Tracklist
Side A
1. Banjo Players of Aleph One
2. Jack Parsons Blues
3. Bliws Afon Tâf
4. Bonfire of the Billionaires
Side B
1. Dreams of Rhiannon’s Birds
2. Last Night I heard the Dog Star Bark
3. Cattywomp
4. Bleak Night in Rabbit’s Wood
5. One Day You’ll Lie Here But Everything Will Have Changed
We Are Busy Bodies