“Now the veils are lifted from my eyes and I can see”
Swaddling Songs (reissue, 1972)
DECCA
REISSUE OF THE MONTH
9/10
ALONG with Vashti Bunyan’s and Comus’s , by Mellow Candle was one of those lost, cult LPs whose slow rediscovery helped to spark a renewed interest in British and Irish psychedelic folk, around 25 years ago. While its potion of meadows, myth and magic still presses plenty of the right folk-rock buttons today, the band avoided too many overt Celtic tinges. It’s an album that can come out swinging capably hard as well as veiling itself with the odd dusky ballad. Anyone familiar with albums by Sandy Denny, Fotheringay and John & Beverley Martyn from the same era will find themselves on
