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Brown Wimpenny: Long Live Brown Wimpenny review | Jude Rogers' folk album of the month (opens in new tab)

(Broadside Hacks)Named after a 19th-century relative, this sprawling group foreground folk’s rough edges, but are best in the emotional, less showy momentsBrown Wimpenny arrive with a name suggesting the softness of a twee indie band, before you discover it belonged to a fourth great-uncle of banjo player Seth Lockwood, who emigrated from a West Yorkshire farm to the 19th-century US. Then you hear the exploratory, hour-long debut album of this sprawling young collective, formed in Sunday sess...

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