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Formed in the late 2000s by multi-instrumentalist Simon Tong (<a href="spotify:artist:2cGwlqi3k18jFpUyTrsR84">the Verve</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:7MhMgCo0Bl0Kukl93PZbYS">Blur</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:6iy8nrBbtL57i4eUttHTww">the Good, the Bad & the Queen</a>), guitarist <a href="spotify:artist:636k3cBTCgdZfXzCj7Cuaa">Gawain Erland Cooper</a>, and drummer David Nock, London-based folk-rock outfit Erland & the Carnival began by experimenting with contemporary neo-psychedelic arrangements of traditional Scottish and English folk songs. Inspired by British folk icons like <a href="spotify:artist:55wOEGTc3QKwBJ9gntcOxT">Pentangle</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:2LIdnZDzySb04oH40be1fR">Fairport Convention</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:4OrrjMGltjy6ojX6034f8u">Steeleye Span</a>, the group, which also includes Andy Bruce, Georgia Sands, and <a href="spotify:artist:3ADEQs2ckwcxB8yT07Rcsy">Danny Wheeler</a>, released its eponymous debut album in 2010. The group's sophomore outing, 2011's horror-themed Nightingale, was recorded over a span of three months aboard the HMS President, a World War I era anti-submarine ship moored on the River Thames, while 2014's Closing Time saw the group eschewing the fairy tales, poems, and traditional material of earlier outings for a more personal, albeit still chamber folk-oriented, collection of songs. ~ James Christopher Monger, Rovi
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