The Hare And The Moon frontman Grey Malkin once described his band’s music as “Black Sabbath and Pentangle having a drunken argument at midnight, in a graveyard.” It’s a wonderfully evocative image, but one that doesn’t do justice to the dark magic conjured on their third album, Witch Wood. The deeply chilling “Come Unto the Corn” might sample Blood on Satan’s Claw, but the terror and dread brought on by these 16 songs make the folk horror of 1970s cinema feel like an episode of Countryfile. Using droning strings, eerily disembodied vocals, and the between-worlds static of Broadcast, they bring out the malevolent evil within a selection of ancient Child Ballads, readings of “Reynardine” and “The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry” making you feel like you’re being led through a dark forest to your ritual slaughter.