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Music Video of the Day: “Harpy” by Fair Mothers

Brooding, heavily-textured, alt-folk is definitely my kinda thing and Fair Mothers gets it so right on their latest single. More a smoldering coal that slow-burn because “Harpy” never really catches fire. It just seethes with hidden heat, like a wound not yet healed. Kevin Allan, the musician behind Fair Mothers, delivers lyrics in a gutted voice only to be punctuated by the anguished vocals of Glasgow-based US artist Faith Eliott just before the song comes to its close. Get into the gothic folk of the new single, “Harpy.”

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