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The Driftwood Manor Fraction of a Wolf

The Driftwood Manor Fraction of a Wolf Reviewed and interviewed by Grey Malkin (The Hare & The Moon) The Driftwood Manor, Eddie Keenans consistently creative and evolving psych folk project, have to date released three superb and highly recommended albums and a clutch of equally essential EPs. This listener in particular spent many a dark and stormy night playing 2011s The Same Figure (Leaving) album and a summers day basking in the glory of their 2013 opus Of the Storm. Now, just as the spring emerges a new Driftwood Manor single Fraction of a Wolf is released as a precursor to their new long player For the Moon, due in June. The Active Listener were naturally keen to investigate further and to speak to Keenan about these new recordings and the themes and musical directions contained therein. To begin with, the single itself. Fraction of a Wolf begins with a tentative and haunting acoustic refrain as Keenans naked voice emerges with a haunting sense of foreboding, recounting of �a...