Here comes Urthona, all heather, moss and grimpen mire, to drag you out onto the moor and clobber you with screeching guitars and some seriously heathen attitude. Unashamedly raw and processed only to the point of reaching out to turn up the volume dial, this is the sound of one man, his Les Paul guitars and enough fuzz to warm a naked ox during a wet night on Bald Mountain.

Urthona lurks deep within Neil Mortimer, editor of Third Stone and Time and Mind, author of two fine tomes on the original modern antiquarian, William Stukeley, and now moor-dwelling guitar hero. So it’s no surprise to find that there’s much more than just hairy-handed amp-bashing at work on these three, lengthy tracks. Urthona Cannot be Destroyed emerges like Dub Syndicate playing the Dr Who theme (which of course they did) in a skirmish with My Bloody Valentine; then The Bright Burst of Morning and Sun and Moon so Heavy take MBV out onto Dartmoor, load them with Kendall Mint Cake and introduce them to Neil Young, who’s been left to stew overnight on Hound Tor. After some serious guitar waving, the Mint Cake is cracked open, a granite amphitheatre is located and our heroes carve out great crackling larva floes that light up the horizon for miles.

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