THE OSIRIS CLUB

The Green Chapel BAD ELEPHANT MUSIC

Brit mavericks conjure strange stories and mythical landscapes from the mist.

On their third album, The Osiris Club have plugged into the strain of ancient rural horror known as English Eerie, a world in which The Wicker Man, early 20th century wyrd-fantasy author Arthur Machin and director Ben Wheatley’s psilocybin-soaked modern-historical horror A Field In England co-exist.

The result is a lysergic landscape of cold stone tombs, blood-black seas, and “broken dreamscapes” haunted by pale ladies. This vivid lyrical imagery is mirrored by the London band’s increasingly expansive music. Mellotron and sax add new textures to Count Magnus and Diamonds In The Wishing Well. In the past The Osiris Club have dubbed themselves “dark folk”, a characteristic apparent on the 15-minute, four-part title track, but the influence of everyone from Hawkwind to Goblin can also be heard throughout. If that wasn’t enough, the whole thing comes housed in a brilliant Watership Down-on-’shrooms wraparound cover courtesy of guitarist Roland Scriver, while the booklet features a series of equally fantastical, Masquerade-esque illustrations by drummer Andrew Prestidge. Epic in every sense.