What are the scariest/creepiest FOLK albums

crepe folk

http://www.progboard.com/graphx/covers/4556.jpg

!

dave bixby

Recommend me some music that sounds like Comus

Kay Huntington.

http://www.trussel.com/lyman/america.jpg

I find the b-side of this record to be fairly creepy and intense.

http://www.lysergia.com/AcidArchives/DreamiesLP_front.jpg

exuma - fire
faun fables - mother twilight

larkin grimm waffles between creepy and sunshiney
http://www.last.fm/music/Larkin+Grimm/_/Strange+Creature

some current 93 maybe?

nothing's creepier than the real thing, check out harry smith's anthology of american folk music. "fatal flower garden" anyone?

Kay Huntington.

LOL. Big time!!!! Buy her castasterpiece What Happening To Our World? NOW!

http://neverdie.ru/pics/death_in_june_all_pigs_must_die.jpg

no mention of simon finn?

also - peter kelley's 'path of the wave'

Does Erica Pomerance or Patty Waters count? One of those, if so.

comus takes it. something newer ~
spires that in the sunset rise four winds the walker

Charles Manson & the Family: Lie (ESP-DISK)Oh, some of it's happy hillbillies:"Now when yer ridin by a market, and you say, 'Man Ahm starvin'--shudup! Go jump in th dumpster, and jus start carvin'." But Manson chickies are also getting their chorale together, no doubt forseeing the need to record The Manson Family Sing The Songs Of Charles Manson, which I haven't heard.

espers songs can be scary/creepy in a trippy kind of way

So basically ESP-Disk = good chance of scary/creepy.

A dissenting voice re: Kay Huntington.

http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_album.php?id=7043

I haven't heard this album, but I'm very curious now.

ESP-Disk = good chance of fucked up (and/or jazz)

Espers weren't on ESP, though I guess the name might be intended to suggest some of what you might have found on the label (espers AKA telepaths, in some 60s science fiction)(also the leader is Helene Espvall, think that's how you spell it; she's got a nice eerie new set with a guy from the sometimes-folkie Ghost, and some of his bandmates materialize at times)But the other ESP folkies I'm familiar with, the Fugs and the Holy Modal Rounders, aren't creepy; guess you could say they're fucked up, depending on your taste/standards of technical excellence/pickiness.I think they're usually good and sometimes great. Pomerance, Waters, maybe, I haven't heard them yet. MIJ's "Sinner Man," on an ESP sampler, has this really sly, nasal, side-of-the-mouth delivery of lines like "Where ya gonna run to..." with extended, flute-like whistling--sounds like some kinda carny/busker you'd best walk on by, if you can.

I don't see Patty Waters as folk at all - more in the jazz and torch song tradition

Helena Espvall, not Helene, sorry: Helena Espvall & Masaki Batoh, s/t (Drag City, 7/22 release)A bit too careful and chambery sometimes for my taste, but basically the kind of nightwork(continuing through whatever daylight might be scavenged) that might get done in a field that's really in the forest, way back in there, with some medieval themes and "Death Letter," my favorite track.

collective tools, although there is some non-folk stuff on it. the atmosphere of the recording + backstory makes for a v creepy experience

terry, jim collins, etc.

Damien Youth's Bride of the Asylum. there's a certain something genuinely unnerving about it. maybe it's all the talk of intersexed Jesuses and wild-eyed gods.

all pigs must die IS MY FAVORITE death in june or current 93 album. it's beautiful to me. I don't really like any of the other albums so much.

me neither, though "rose clouds of holocaust" has its strength. but "all pigs" is the best creepy/personal axis, I think the backstory (douglas p. losing friends over money stuff) infuses it with a very confused, only half-conscious power.

Wow, I haven't heard Pigs...must correct that.

That Dreamies thing upthread looks way neato.