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Comus

90–160 BPMacid folkprog folkprogressive folk

Early-1970s dark acid folk from the 1970s: frantic strummed acoustics, sawing violin drones, scraping viola, menacing and theatrical in feel. A name-free Suno recipe that reproduces the signature sound without tripping the artist-name filter.

Style: Acid Folk · Related styles: Progressive Folk, Progressive Folk, Psychedelic Folk, Folk

History

Comus made some of the most unsettling music to come out of the British folk underground. Their 1971 debut First Utterance is almost entirely acoustic, yet it feels violent: frantic strummed guitars, sawing violin, flute and oboe, hand percussion with an Eastern flavour, and vocals that growl, shriek and yelp like animals. The songs deal with murder, madness and the mystical, which is why the record is filed under dark or acid folk rather than anything pastoral. The band grew out of a folk duo formed in 1969 by art students Roger Wootton and Glenn Goring around Bromley in Kent, and took its name from Milton's masque and the Greek god of revelry. As a larger ensemble they played David Bowie's Arts Lab in Beckenham, and he booked them as his support act in London. A second album, To Keep from Crying, followed in 1974 with a changed line-up and a gentler tone, and the group then fell silent. First Utterance built a cult following over the decades; Comus reunited in 2008 and released Out of the Coma in 2012. What stays with listeners is that wild vocal delivery over acoustic playing on the edge of collapse.

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