Alasdair Roberts - Grief In the Kitchen and Mirth In the Hall

From our now-venerable, but ever thistle-sharp, Scots singer of new songs and old, comes a fifth full-length collection of traditional songs. Reaching down the centuries to unpack these numbers anew, Alasdair finds a set of eternal melodies - and with them, an unsettling number of surreal images that parallel the madness of our modern times.