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  The Oatcake Herbal by The Lonely Oatcake


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Artist: The Lonely Oatcake
Title: The Oatcake Herbal
Catalogue Number: No catalogue number
Review Format: Download
Release Year: 2025



The return of The Lonely Oatcake. That would make an excellent title for a movie if we still lived in a time when some herbal powered reflection was all you needed to get by. Today being today, not much has really changed in consumer preferences and it is therefore only appropriate to sit back and ponder their album “The Oatcake Herbal”.

It is the way of these alt-incompletists – there’s a fairly unfamiliar genre for you – to make the most of the trivialities of life and there is, no doubt, some deep philosophical thinking behind their often whimsical lyrics. Or perhaps not, yet, if it is not the case, I am therefore drawn to wonder just why anyone would write a song about pies or, for that matter, take a bundle of country music chords and apply them diligently to a song about broccoli. There has to be something more in there and, in the almost psychedelic, lyrics to “Conversation To A Pumpkin” or “Habitats”, substance will indeed be found. I suppose the cynical will want to believe that this is just the result of the overzealous use of the suggestions from an online thesaurus on a dark and stormy night but methinks that, underneath that lo-fi and lowkey presentation, there lurks both a heart and a mind.

The Lonely Oatcake have indeed returned. Their horse may now be herbal but they still know where they are going.

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Review Date: April 18 2025