Martyn Bates – Murder Ballads: Incest Songs (2-LP Vinyl)

Martyn Bates has spent decades excavating the darkest corners of British and American folk tradition, and his work with these ancient narratives of violence, desire, and moral ruin sits in a lineage stretching from Child Ballads through the gothic post-punk underground he helped shape with Eyeless in Gaza. These are songs that predate sentimentality, rooted in oral tradition where tragedy was reported plainly and without mercy.