Hush

Australian trio Extradition only released one album, Hush – that’s about enough to seal a group’s place in the acid folk pantheon, though. (Record collectors love one-offs and outliers.) But Hush deserves more than the myths that have accrued around its recording and rarity. Vocalist Shayna Karlin has a clarity of tone that sets her alongside international peers like Maddy Prior and Mandy Morton; the songs, framed by crystalline acoustic guitar and pattering percussion, court hippie-dom, but transcend through their curiosity and eloquence. There are some experimental touches, too – the group-sound clatter-and-scrum of “Original Whim”; the modular structure of “A Water Song”, which is broken up by recordings of the flow and burble of the titular substance.