There’s something simultaneously unnerving yet comforting about ‘The Ballad of Lampshade Ed’. The strange horror-esque bluegrass tune from The Curse of K.K. Hammond keeps you on your toes, delivering a delightfully jingle worthy blues tune that has just enough horror inspired thematic influences to keep you slightly jaded and concerned. Delivering this picturesque and evocative description of a backland area with these dark undertones, you’re left in this strange folk horror landscape. The video is even more disturbing, loaded with imagery of strange pig headed farmers and psychological horror sequences that a little girl undergoes. A perfect soundtrack for your folk horror indie movie that’s bound to terrify you despite its seemingly cutesy landscapes.
Definitively unique and out there in soundscape and messaging, it’s a refreshing take to bluegrass that’s still ridiculously catchy.