Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Lawson. Peter - The Witchfinder (2024)

 

The second album from this artist from Great Britain.

Peter Lawson did the bass, guitars, mandolin, keyboards and vocals here.

Peter Lawson is from Manchester and he has been involved in some local bands before he went his own ways with some Bandcamp albums. Some of them as duo with a German drummer. The duo is called Venus Loon and I got a couple of their albums for reviews later this year... or whenever I got time.

The Wictchfinder is about this well ill reputed Mathew Hopkins who, for a large sum of money, went around England and "detected" witches. Women who was then burnt on a stake. All of them were off course innocent. This sorry saga has spawned at least one good heavy metal band (Witchfynder General), numerous songs and now this name-your-price Bandcamp album.

The music on this forty minutes long album is a mix of heavy prog and proggy folk rock. 

The music is mostly performed by electric guitars. There are some vocals at the end.

The music sounds and feels like it was homemade and recorded in a living room. The levels in the sound feels a bit off and the sound is not good. Neither is the music which is guitar solos following guitar solos. None of them are good.

There are some decent music here but most of this album is best forgotten. 

1.5 points

 

 

 

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