2 Belbury Poly The Gone Away GHOST BOX 2020, £14.95

Jupp goes back to basics in documenting sinister faerie sightings.

On this seventh album, the follow-up to 2016’s New Ways

Out, Jupp revisits Ghost Box’s hauntological roots with this three-years-in-the-making album inspired by the faerie folklore of the British Isles. These are not the twee, unthreatening creations depicted in Cicely Mary Barker’s children’s books, but the creatures of a more unnerving variety that inhabit the stories of Arthur Machen and HP Lovecraft. Jupp also takes complete creative control here: composing, producing, arranging and playing a miscellany of instruments – recorder, ocarina, mellotron, Moog etc – in his search for ingress into their secret world. It’s a considerable achievement in vision and scope, totally discombobulating but utterly enthralling.