Guardian's Contemporary Album of the Month: 'A Universe That Roasts Blossoms for a Horse' by Širom - weird and pan-global folk forgeries

Contemporary folk played by the Slovenian band is "densely written and meticulously plotted music, played live on acoustic instruments, apparently without any overdubs", the Guardian states. "The songs (some of them 15 minutes long) are episodic, dreamlike voyages – qawwali-style vocal wailing and medieval drones mutate into free-jazz freakouts; steampunk techno (played on pots, pans and cutlery) shifts into gamelan music, anchored by squelchy bass sounds". Listen to the album at BandCamp.