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One sign that Tom Bombadil have made a truce is that she is the River Daughter and wears pale green, and he is the man of the hills and woods and wears blue

Songs from the Wood - Bombadeal

The other day, a journalist noted that the mashup album existed as an daft artform for a mere slither of time - and it's true, but I hadn't noticed it because it was the years I started discovering music. It was alongside the heydey of piracy, an echo to its scrabbling accumulative abundance. The most famous of the era is probably the Neil Cicierega ones; like remix culture's blue-smartie kid hangeron

Anyway, I was yanked bodily back to the state of being 13 by Songs from the Wood by Bombadeal, which is - I shit you not - an indie hip hop Tom Bombadil concept album. Oh yes, oh YES this is exactly what that genre was like: stupid and joyful.

I have a lot of records which might be described as some kind of Bombadil tribute - big gorgeous heavypaper vinyls inherited from my father, and an increasingly bulging hard drive of every acid folk track committed to record - and could has anything sound more literally Bombadillish than this? I had a grin wide across my face the entire time.