TRACKLIST

1. Knock Knock  2. Wolves  3. I Can Hear Your Voice  4. Jaw of a Whale  5. Closer I Am  6. Slice Open the Day  7. Illuminated Red  8. Birthday  9. Dream for Me 10. Killing Floor 11. Time and Space

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The minimalist folk sounds of The Accidental have a very soothing quality and listening to There Were Wolves is a gently moving experience that deserves lots of repetition. Released in April of 2008, There Were Wolves is a gorgeous collection of soft songs that meld together with dreamy precision to create a record that conjures notions of Iron & Wine.
The Accidental, as the name might suggest, came together almost by accident. Starting with Stephen Cracknell (Memory Band) and Sam Genders (Tunng), the UK-based band came together as the result of an assortment of meanderings and chance encounters.
Genders and Cracknell first met at the Green Man festival and decided to mail each other CDs back and forth. Another member, Hannah Caughlin (The Bicycle Thieves), stumbled into the eventual quartet through the happy providence of being introduced to Cracknell as a potential housemate. The fourth member, Liam Bailey joined after turning up at a Memory Band gig.
The result of such advantageous occurrences is a band whose sound feels as natural and unintentional as the way the group came together. With a firm belief in the freedom of the music, The Accidental set upon making There Were Wolves via a PC with the help of the members' friends and a solid musical sense as the map to buried musical treasure.
There Were Wolves matches the feel of the creation, unfolding merrily as though a group of friends is sitting around strumming and piecing together songs in your basement. Despite fitting firmly in the folk genre, The Accidental is undaunted by carrying out musical tests and mischievously experiments with broad textures, strings, and sound effects all through the course of the record.
Each member of the band sings parts on There Were Wolves, adding to the freer feel of the album and creating a luxuriant, broad sound. With an immensely creative introduction in "Knock, Knock," which was remixed by Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard and given a shadowy electronic music character, the album takes off with a vibe that MOJO calls "folktronica."
The Accidental keeps things pretty basic despite the genre-splicing adventurism, allowing things to flow through the basic folk paces on tracks like the sound-effect-laden "Jaw of a Whale" and the sway of "Illuminated Red."
There are two instrumentals ("Slice Open the Day" and "The Killing Floor"). Both tracks unfold beautifully like sun poking through a window’s gossamer curtains. The quality of the quartet’s exquisite compositions is evident on these tracks, with swirling instruments and strings delivering nothing sort of pure atmospheric heaven.
The Accidental’s There Were Wolves is a stunning and lush recording punctuated by pleasant compositions, delicate melodies, and the gorgeous work of all four vocalists. It is an incredible folk record and contains some of the best music I’ve heard all year.

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