Brown Wimpenny: Long Live Brown Wimpenny review | Jude Rogers' folk album of the month

(Broadside Hacks) Named after a 19th-century relative, this sprawling group foreground folk’s rough edges, but are best in the emotional, less showy moments Brown Wimpenny arrive with a name suggesting the softness of a twee indie band, before you discover it belonged to a fourth great-uncle of banjo player Seth Lockwood, who emigrated from a West Yorkshire farm to the 19th-century US. Then you hear the exploratory, hour-long debut album of this sprawling young collective, formed in Sunday se...

By Jude Rogers