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Uncut Jan 2008 SAMANTHA MARAIS Lovingly recreated approximations of 1960s English folk whimsy. Latest release from a label run by Simon Tong and Youth is by Marais, a young South African émigré who makes unnervingly good replications of 1960s English popfolk. In fact, the Sandy Denny/Vashti Bunyan-ish whimsy is reproduced so faithfully you could swear tracks like “First Days Of June” or “Hourglass” (with their hippy-dippy lyrics, harmonium drones and clumpy percussion) were 40-year-old Denny/Bunyan outtakes. The pastiche is enhanced by subtle psych flourishes and drone rock interludes.JOHN LEWIS
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