Listen to Grendel and Widow's Walk from the mini-album The Coracle and the Albatross (Folk Police Recordings 2011)

'There’s something magically enticing yet hauntingly disconcerting about Foxpockets’ music. Maybe it’s the faintly disturbing edge to the sometimes ghostly vocals or perhaps it’s the sheer other-worldliness of the sound or possibly it’s the strangely mediaeval emphasis to their music... This is music that demands you listen. Pay attention or you will miss the subtle, sometimes bizarre, often unexpected, dramatic progressions, variations and accents that Foxpockets scatter through their songs.' (Folkwords)

Foxpockets are Katharine Simner (vocals, percussion) Justin Schamotta (accordion, glockenspiel) Jennifer Evans (harp, penny whistle) and Samuel Tetley (banjo, vocals). 

Part medieval procession, part ethereal enchantment, Foxpockets have been described as an experimental folk band performing modern-day fables. You can hear echoes of the spookier, more unsettling end of 70s psych-folk in their sound - Forest, COB, Incredible String Band, Dr Strangely Strange, Comus - but also hints of the woozy charm and rolling rhythms of sea chanties and the plaintive mysteries of a re-imagined early music. Though based in Brighton, their musical outpourings have a rural vibe, but needless to say it's the hinterland of things than lurk unseen in hedges and tales from the Wildwood rather than any bucolic visions of pastoral bliss.

Foxpockets released their debut mini-album, The Coracle and the Albatross, in a limited edition of 80 copies via the excellent Reverb Worship micro-label. The new mini album will be released by Folk Police in the summer of 2012.

Foxpockets are a band that likes to get out and play - take a look at our live page for details of forthcoming outings. You can also follow them on Facebook and Myspace.

'Foxpockets are a unique new sound to the British folk scene, mixing unusual combinations of instrumentation and sounds to create songs that suggest they have emerged from the pages of fairytales.' (Bright Young Folk)

'Beautifully sung compositions that bounce along with a kind of medieval charm.' (The Brighton Source Magazine) 

'The Coracle & The Albatross is from start to finish totally enchanting.' (Fatea)

'Well-crafted compositions with disturbingly strange lyrics and interesting arrangements.' (A Dead Spot of Light) 

'This is simply music that makes one feel awfully lucky to have found it.' (NBT Review)