…Brown Wimpenny formed in Manchester in 2023. Within weeks, their ranks had swelled to twenty-five, with members based in Liverpool and London. For a spell, they existed as an amorphous entity, a folk collective with the spirit of punk experimentation, traditional music’s answer to dada or situationism. By 2024, they had settled on a line-up of a mere eleven members and released a selection of brilliantly raw demos in January of that year. Their first single, ‘The Sheffield Grinder/Black Joak’, came out last year and was swiftly followed by ‘Raglan Road’. Both of those songs appear on the band’s full-length debut, Long Live Brown Wimpenny.
‘The Sheffield Grinder/Black Joak’ was quite an introduction. Accordionist James Brown…

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