London heavy psychedelic/folk rockers Crumbling Ghost announce new album »Four« on New Heavy Sounds; second single/video streaming now!

London, UK based heavy psychedelic/folk rockers Crumbling Ghost premiere a music video for the second single »Last Of All Sleep« taken from their upcoming album, »Four«, set to release on August 7th, 2026 via New Heavy Sounds.

Tracklist:
01. Bows Of London
02. Bill Norrie
03. Valtz Efter Tor Lohne
04. Lovely Joan
05. Gower Wassail
06. Last Of All Sleep
07. The Unquiet Grave

Courtesy of New Heavy Sounds:

»Last Of All Sleep« is Crumbling Ghost visiting the pantheon of slowcore with effortless cool and groove, along with oozing heavy Fuzz that Mudhoney, Alice In Chains or Melvins would head-nod to. It has also a killer vocal with hooks that Blackwater Holylight or Faetooth would kill for.

Taken from the album »Four«, scheduled for release on August 7th, 2026.

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Crumbling Ghost are not newcomers. They’ve been operating for some time, releasing records sporadically, »Four« is in fact their fourth release.

Along the way they’ve accumulated a fervent coterie of followers, not to mention the occasional nod of approval from tastemakers such as Stuart Maconie, Stewart Lee and Tom Ravenscroft.

And though they’ve appeared at Roadburn, shared stages with Hawkwind and even Damo Suzuki, they remain (possibly by design) curiously under the radar. That might change with the quite wonderful »Four«

The group’s core idea is deceptively simple: traditional folk material refracted through the haze and heft of heavy, fuzzy stoner rock with a chunk of psyche and a smattering of doom.

Fairport Convention with fuzz. Trees with heft. A pastoral Sonic Youth. Musically, it’s a combination that really does work, and it’s delivered in some style too.

Folk and metal/heavy rock do have a connection of course, just look at Green Lung and their ‘folk horror’ infused musical universe, but Crumbling Ghost are a very different beast.

»Four« amply and beautifully demonstrates that when it comes to ‘folk horror’ there’s nothing quite as horrible as folk… Here, the horror such as it is, and it must be said, the moments of light, comes not from theatrics, but from the songs themselves – which, after all, is where it’s always lived.

Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well