The Shining Levels - The Gallow's PoleMusic inspired by Ben Myers best selling novel The Gallows Pole, winner Of The 2018 Walter Scott Prize, with full backing and involvement of the author. The Shining Levels are a new music collective based in Northumberland and Durham. Written and recorded on the edge of the northern English moors and using rural folk musicians, loops and electronics, the record is a heady brew of gritty landscape hymns, ethereal acid folk, borderlands ballads, 70s

skeletal rhythms built on sturdy yet singular drum machines supporting luminescent guitar and synth lines

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