Londo- based self-anointed "post-clown" trio Gentle Stranger release 'Since The Plough / Kinclaven Brig / Morpeth Rant', the third and final single ahead of the release of their anticipated new album Upon Return. One of the most unique and hard to define acts currently making music, a band that elegantly teeters between moments of sublime beauty and pompous absurdity, Gentle Stranger are everything at once. The new song is a self referential callback to a track on their previous record and an amalgam of traditional folk songs, underpinned by an insistent bodhran beat, a chorus of whistles and flutes and Tom Hardwick Allan's brilliantly unhinged vocals. The track is best described by the band themselves, “Since The Plough is a posthumous response to Til the Plough (sung by our friend Bob on Phantom Thoroughfare). Til the Plough was a song he’d written for fun, squeezing as many folk tropes in as he could to relay the age old message - my love goes with you until the constellations (plough and huntsman) fall and the land turns to sea etc. On Since the Plough, Tom sings whilst dancing on a table, from a place after all this and more has happened (‘since the plough has come undone from the sun and the huntsman is but cloth…’), yet resolves that ‘still my heart remains on the path you made before you parted from here’. We wanted to keep it in dialogue with folk so put together a medley including Kinclaven Brig and Morpeth Rant, which are both traditional Northumbrian tunes - the former is learnt from Martin Dunn and the latter is one of the first tunes Alex learnt on the whistle.” Upon Return will be released on 25 November via PRAH Recordings. - Toby Evans-Jesra