Spafford Campbell are twenty-something mould-breakers: fiddle player Owen Spafford and guitarist Louis Campbell.

Their latest album Tomorrow Held is a visionary body of eight largely instrumental tracks that hold space, resolve into mystery, that fold in elements of jazz, post-rock and chamber classical music while raiding the folk music toolbox. Call it what you want: post-folk. Trad-noir. Folk nihilism. Then know that Spafford Campbell are blazing a trail that erases genre — and finds gold in the embers.

While redolent of Talk Talk’s moody, experimental 1988 opus Spirit of Eden, and riven with a Bon Iver-ish sense of transcendence, Tomorrow Held is a work of bold singularity. A whole greater than the sum of its parts — parts that include effects pedals, ambient cassette loops, flashes of electric guitar, electronic processing on fiddle and impressionistic accompaniment.

PRESS HIGHLIGHTS:

“Mingling traditional tunes with influences from minimalism, post-rock and jazz, they shift moods exquisitely” The Guardian — 10 best folk albums of 2025

“This is a fusing of the traditional and the futuristic that is quietly groundbreaking, and beguiling with it.” ★★★★ The Times — albums of the year so far 2025

“An intense, almost subliminal drama you want to turn up to 11”

★★★★★ The Arts Desk — Album of the Year 2025

“Their ever-shifting time-lapse textures evoke a strangely unsettling beauty” MOJO

NPR Music — Best albums of the Week

Folk Album of the Year Award 2025 — Nominee

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