The very premature loss of Brown Bird’s Dave Lamb to leukaemia was one of the saddest events of last year, and his wife MorganEve Swain has announced the release of their final record, Axis Mundi, an album the pair recorded together before his illness took a turn for the worse.

Bannermen is the first track from it, a song that highlights, as Swain says, that they were more than just a folk band and one that she is rightly proud of, with some middle eastern flourishes and even a touch of metal.

The album is out on the 28th April and can be pre-ordered here.

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