Over the past year or so, Abney Park has become one of my all time favourite groups.
I love their sound, their subject matter, even their look. Their music has a 'world' sound - as if Near Eastern Arabic sounds and Jewish Klezmer had been put into a blender and mixed with a heavy dose of rock and some old 1930's 78rpm's! Yet the description still doesn't do them justice.
Watch them on YouTube. Listen to the samples provided by Amazon. What's not to like!!???
For a week or two I thought I wasn't going to like this as much as Aether Shanties, their previous album. But now I do. It grows on you.
This group really deserves to be much better known. Try them!
PS - not sure if I'm allowed to say this, but if you buy the 'delux' version of this Album from the Abney Park website, you get some nice extras.