Hush The Many - Mind The Sprawl EP

Review by Sam Lewis

English four piece Hush The Many make the kind of folk that one fears may be going out of fashion. With Vashti Bunyan, Iron & Wine, Joanna Newsom and Devendra Banhart all having been appropriated by marketing men recently, adorning adverts for products ranging from mobile phones to cheese, suddenly the ‘new weird/freak folk/insert tag here’ movement seems to have suddenly, strangely, lept from the periphery into the mainstream (in its loosest definition). Maybe it’s not all that surprising; with their beguiling eccentricities artists like Banhart and Newsom must seem like prime meat for admen desperate to attach themselves to quirky figures with indie-cred.»