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01. THE OWL SERVICE - Folk Revival (A Garland of Song)
02. THE OWL SERVICE - The Rolling of the Stones
03. THE OWL SERVICE - The Bear Ghost
04. THE OWL SERVICE - Hoodening
05. THE OWL SERVICE - A Child's Calendar
06. THE OWL SERVICE - Katie Cruel
07. THE OWL SERVICE - The Two Magicians
08. THE OWL SERVICE - The Dorset Hanging Oak
09. THE OWL SERVICE - Oxford City
10. THE OWL SERVICE - The North Country Maid
11. THE OWL SERVICE - Fine Horseman
12. THE OWL SERVICE - Robin Hood & the Bold Peddlar
13. THE OWL SERVICE - The Lammas
14. THE OWL SERVICE - A Lyke Wake Dirge
15. THE OWL SERVICE - Apple Tree Man
16. THE OWL SERVICE - The Gardener Child
17. THE OWL SERVICE - Turpin Hero
18. THE OWL SERVICE - Corn Dollies
19. THE OWL SERVICE - Flanders Shore
ARTIST
TITLE
Garland Sessions
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
STR 002CD STR 002CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
10/23/2012

Garland Sessions is a reworked version of the debut album by Essex-based alt-folk collective The Owl Service, featuring outtakes of all 13 songs from the original Garland of Song album tweaked, remixed, re-recorded and remastered. It also contains an additional five tracks which the band worked on at the same time as the debut but which only saw the light on various short-run releases, plus one all-new recording. A Garland of Song was originally released on the band's own Hobby-Horse label in 2007 as a limited handmade CD-R and soon after it was picked up by Southern Records for a worldwide release, quickly establishing The Owl Service as key players in the folk revival of the last decade. They once again set up on their own for the second full-length release A View from a Hill (Rif Mountain 2010), an album which eschewed the lo-fi garage-folk sound of its predecessor in favor of a more sombre, earnest approach -- it won them many new fans and much critical acclaim. Garland Sessions takes the nucleus of the original record and delivers a more rounded end-product more in tune with the sound of the second album. The Owls disbanded at the start of 2012, making this their final release, and bringing the story full circle.