PRESS

WHAT PEOPLE SAY

“Like Orpheus incarnate, Dalrymple conjures aural phantasmagoria with lyric and lyre. Follow the melodies of 'Make Believe' from golden Elysian fields to the dark depths of the river Styx.”

Benjamin A. Vierling

Painter/Fine Artist

Album Reviews

JOHN SCHARPEN

"...My take on this album is that is centers around the importance of stories and storytelling. We are, after all, living collections of the stories we’ve been told and the stories we tell ourselves..."

HEATHEN HARVEST

"I can imagine someone leafing through crates of vinyl ......and mistaking it for an oddity from the late ’60s. 'Is this the Incredible String Band channeling Rick Wakeman?‘, they might ask...."

THE UNION

"Take an excursion into a realm where time is but a memory, where high magic runs afoot, where the senses become tangled in a web of misty dreams...."

MARKUS WOLFF

This new work has it all-catchy psych-pop songs, quasi-eastern folk freak-outs, epic bardic harp journeys, and everything in between...

KRUMBLED KOOKIE

"The rhythms and melodies on this record are so captivating that I can't stop listening."

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ZACHARY LIPEZ

(Freshkills, Publicist UK)

"I crave it regularly and feel weird if I go a few days without any Lasher Keen-mixed potions..."

SACRAMENTO NEWS REVIEW

"Some fans have said the ritual induces incredible visions. Some swear it’s made them even see their spirit animal."

BLACK METAL & BREWS

"How the man and band were capable of releasing two albums in less than a year and putting together a stage performance to pair with the more recent album is beyond my understanding...

HEATHEN HARVEST

"While much music in this genre tends towards the melancholic and jaded, Lasher Keen shows us the things left in this world worth celebrating with ecstatic mirth. Lose yourself and join in the dance."

BLACK METAL & BREWS

"Perhaps this is one of the most telling facts of Lasher Keen’s music and presence: time and environment are displaced when listening to these captivating and otherworldly songs."

DOUG GAYLORD

(Punk Retrospective)

"There is depth, subtlety, awareness, integrity, intelligence and passion in this work and, for me, that makes it genuine. "

PLAGUE HAUS

"There are so many varying styles that every track is like getting a birthday present."

HENRY LAUER

(Hex Magazine)

"Lasher Keen have always evoked their own unique mythological atmosphere, and with this LP they’ve raised that talent to new heights."

Aaron Garland,

TYR, Myth, Culture, Tradition, vol.4

"Dalrymple MacAlpin’s vocals are prescient in nearly every song, echoing that indefinable juncture of the natural world and the spiritual realm that should appeal to anyone with a pantheistic or heathen worldview"

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WHAT PEOPLE SAY

"Dalrymple is a storyteller of singular grace and charm; someone we must embrace and celebrate."

Motoko

Award winning Japanese Storyteller