Vinyl Record
Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Nathan Salsburg & Tyler Trotter - Hear the Children Sing the Evidence
Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Nathan Salsburg & Tyler Trotter - Hear the Children Sing the Evidence on LP vinyl. A 2024 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.
LP ยท 2024
Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.
Buyer notes: 2024 LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.
Hear the Children Sing the Evidence turns two Lungfish songs into a long, hovering act of attention. The project began with Nathan Salsburg remembering "The Evidence" while rocking his infant daughter to sleep, discovering that the song's repeated guitar figure could stretch into a private lullaby. Instead of treating that origin as a cute anecdote, the album takes the idea seriously: Salsburg's patient guitar, Bonnie "Prince" Billy's plain-spoken vocal gravity, and Tyler Trotter's drum machines and synthesizers reshape Lungfish's post-punk mantra into something closer to devotional folk minimalism. "Hear the Children Sing" and "The Evidence" are allowed to breathe at length, so repetition becomes the drama. Small changes in tone, pressure and texture start to matter. The music does not chase spectacle; it trusts duration, care and the strange power of a simple pattern repeated until it feels transformed. That makes the album both intimate and uncanny, rooted in a family room but reaching toward ritual.
The album matters because it reframes Lungfish without diluting the original songs' hypnotic force. Salsburg and Oldham do not turn them into standard folk covers; they preserve the mantra-like insistence and let it become tender, domestic and spacious. In the 2024 folk and experimental landscape, it stands out as a modest-looking collaboration with a precise idea: repetition can console, unsettle and deepen at the same time.
For collectors, Hear the Children Sing the Evidence is a meaningful modern Bonnie "Prince" Billy-adjacent entry because it links Oldham's voice to Salsburg's instrumental patience and Lungfish's austere song architecture. It also rewards listeners who collect No Quarter-era folk experiments, where acoustic playing, regional friendships and exploratory structure often meet. The appeal is not a flashy edition story; it is the album's exact mood, a long-form listening piece that gains force when heard without interruption.
Meditative folk minimalism with extended guitar patterns, soft electronic pulse, Oldham's understated vocal delivery and a lullaby-like approach to Lungfish's post-punk repetition.
Recommended for: Bonnie "Prince" Billy listeners drawn to quiet collaborative projects; Nathan Salsburg fans who value patient guitar-based listening; Collectors interested in folk interpretations of post-punk material.
Who is credited on Hear the Children Sing the Evidence? The release is credited to Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Nathan Salsburg and Tyler Trotter, with Salsburg central to the concept and Oldham providing the main vocal presence. What songs does the album reinterpret? It presents extended versions of two Lungfish songs: "Hear the Children Sing" and "The Evidence". What year should be used for this album? Use 2024. The album was released in 2024, with May 31, 2024 appearing across retail and music listings.