Single review: Erland & The Carnival – The Derby Ram
There are an awful lot of folk bands around at the moment, most of whom seem to focus on the more dreamy wistful side. Erland & the Carnival on the other hand take a rockier, and in the case of this, the latest single to be taken from their eponymous debut album, a much darker approach. For ‘The Derby Ram’ they have taken a traditional English folk song, originally a comical tale about a Ram of gargantuan proportions and the problems involved in butchering it, and adapted it into the sad and shocking modern tale of Read more…


