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Now here's something pretty exciting. If ever a single had you gagging for the album that follows it, this is certainly up there. The prospect of folk-metal might not sound too appealing, but somehow Rose Kemp has come up with a winner.
Recently, Earth have shifted away from the drone of their earlier releases and started to explore further, adopting landscapes and culture into their music to create a kind of drone metal Americana.
Rose Kemp, whilst nowhere near as heavy as Earth, has pulled of a similar trick with Nanny's World. Intitially sounding something like a bizarre Kate Bush/Pam Ayres hybrid (she's from Bristol), the song slowly builds an incessant pounding rhythm. Operatic, folk tinged and then heavy as fuck Nanny's World is a two and half minute version of Baba Yaga - innocence and tyranny and terror all piled into one thrilling story. Imagine a campfire story as told by the Blair Witch with accompaniment from Black Sabbath and you're in the right ball park.
This is thrilling stuff. If she can keep this level of quality up for her forthcoming album Unholy Majesty (and that's one hell of a title) then Rose Kemp will be the name on everybody's lips come the autumn.
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