‘Songs from the Free House’ finds Smote delving deeper into the primal forces that have shaped Daniel Foggin’s life and music. Rooted in years spent working outdoors as a landscape gardener, the album channels the physicality of earth, stone, weather, and repetition into a heavy, meditative ritual. Foggin’s connection to soil, history, and natural rhythms becomes the driving current behind these five long-form pieces, where drone-laced heaviness, folk mysticism, and centuries-old storytelling merge into a singular vision. Recorded at Blank Studios with Sam Grant, the album expands Smote’s sound into a wider, more immersive landscape without sacrificing the raw, earthen intensity of earlier work.

Across its sprawling movements, ‘Songs from the Free House’ blends devotional chants, crushing electronic weight, and wyrm-born folklore into something both ancient and immediate. “The Linton Wyrm” transforms Borderlands legend into a towering hymn, while tracks like “The Cottar” and “Chamber” pulse with mantric repetition and deep, resonant atmosphere. Guest appearances from Sally Mason and Lankum’s Ian Lynch add texture, anchoring the album in mythic, lived-in ground. Elemental and transcendent, Smote craft a work where past and present collapse into a single ritual—music born from the earth, shaped by intuition, and delivered with unflinching spiritual force.

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