The Spacemen 3 of folk are back with a new EP. and they’re gonna kick out the jams, or, more likely, hypnotise them and sort of usher them out of the door.

Picking up where their Christmas single, Sleep The Winter, left off – which is unsurprising as both records came out of the same recording sessions -title track Into The Fold captures perfectly their smouldering slow-burn sound. There’s something epic about the noise they make; something which suggests wide windswept landscapes, silhouetted leafless trees and rocky outcrops.  Already commissioned by the Edinburgh International Film Festival to soundtrack footage from the Scottish Screen Archive, it’s surely only a matter of time before further film score work materialises.

Everything moves at a very slow pace here, vocals are murmured and strings drawn out and stretched to their limits – it’s a lot like the starkly beautiful work of Hildur Gudnadottir on her Without Sinking album – only Morpheus, coincidentally the EP’s shortest track breaks into a trot. The rest of the tracks are allowed to materialise and fade with equal elasticity, Into the Fold comes in at over six minutes and closing track No Conjunction is just five seconds short of ten minutes in length.

But what’s the rush anyway? Listen to it and watch the sky grow dark. I just did and it fitted perfectly.

eagleowl, and yes their laid-backness does extend so far as to deem the use of capital letters unnecessary, launch Into the Fold at the Roxy Room in Edinburgh on Friday, April 30^th before releasing it through selected independent record stores or to order through their website and label (details below) from May 3^rd. They also play The Flying Duck in Glasgow on Saturday, May 1^st.

Into The Fold is available from eagleowl’s website which is here and kilter records can be found here.