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The Shining Levels - What's The Frequency Kenneth

from A Carnival of Sorts: An R​.​E​.​M. covers compilation by Various Artists

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The Shining Levels is a musical collective existing on the edge of the northern English moors using rural folk musicians, loops and electronics, the result is a heady brew of gritty landscape hymns, ethereal acid-folk, borderlands ballads, 70s folk horror TV/film atmospherics, mood pieces, echoes of the colliery bands of old, moor-top drones and much more.

Their debut album - "Music Inspired by The Gallows Pole" - was released on vinyl in 2019 by Outré Disque (home of Paris popsters Juniore) to many favourable reviews, with subsequent singles garnering international radio support - including from BBC's Radcliffe/Maconie, Gideon Coe, James Endeacott etc.

Summer of 2021 sees them re-unite for work on a new "concept album" with details to be announced soon..

They explain why they chose the song to cover:
"Obviously everyone's got their personal faves but given we have a lot of rural folk influence in our music just as R.E.M. do, we thought it'd be fun to try one of their heavier pop tunes starting from a folky perspective and seeing where that led.

We use a cut-and-paste approach to our music, often sampling each other and mangling traditional instruments then blending with electronic elements, so in homage to R.E.M we dusted off the old mandolin and fiddle (which REM had abandoned for this record) and asked them to come up with a warped acoustic interpretation of the song. I suppose we set out to re-imagine R.E.M fronted by 3 North-East lasses trapped in some sort of psychedelic English garden.."

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