U Archenfield Vinyl LP 2025
- Urchins
- Is It a Kind of Dream?
- Avenbury Organist
- Half Moon
- The Bitter Withy
- He's Found It
- SPOOKS!
- Cold Lazarus
- Black Vaughan
- In Flanders, Again
- Buried Treasure
- Sin Eater
- Ariconium
- Lost to the Plough
Autodidactic musicologist and sample collagist U turned his archival eye on the melting pot of ‘80s post-punk with his debut ‘Life Isn’t A Fountain?’ EP for Lex. He follows up with an experimental exploration of regional identity with ARCHENFIELD, a deeply personal collection of ambient music and found sound that examines the relationship between geographical space and aural histories. To construct this record U mined a wealth of recorded material relevant to the area. With a nod to traditional music, he takes samples from these records and creates beautifully atmospheric sound pieces that are often mixed with painstakingly researched snippets to create a stirring reflection on local history and broader themes of how we interact, or even fail to interact, with English folklore today.