Genre: Twisted Folk Rock (Reinterpreted)

Disc 1 Pop and Folk
01 Rome - A Man Needs a Man Friend
02 Der Feuerkreiner - Game Warden
03 Dogs Hate Monet - Sarah's Booted Boy
04 Circus Joy - Meno Di Strano (Less Than Queer)
05 Womb - The Girl From the D'n D
06 Naevus with Rose McDowall - Restraining Order/Fishheads and Olives Medley
07 Lloyd James - Little Sap and Varicose
08 Ernte - Ich Hab' Vergessen Wie Man Disch Liebt (I Have Forgotten How to Love You)
09 Changes - Got So Many Women
10 The Lindbergh Baby - Gentleman Farmer Slips Away
11 Myoclonic Jerks - Severed Hand Holding Daisies
12 Spiritual Front - There is No Mud in Joyville
13 Jerome Deppe - Taxidermy Tragedy
14 Code Voire - Seizure Dream Believer
15 Spectre - Presepio Di Teschi (Nativity of Skulls)
16 Albireon - No Fun Anymore
17 Division S - The Ballad of Bob Crane
18 David Talento - Grey Balloon Masquerading
19 Seelenblut - The Need for Less Sex in the World
20 David E. Williams - Bad Day Anyway (as Choral Quartet in Diabolus Musicae, with Round)
21 Thomas Nola et son Orchestre - Sandra Lindsey
22 Foresta di Ferro - I'm in Love with the Ambulance Driver
23 Ethel Mermaid - I Was a Fool in Love

Disc 2 Contra Pop and Folk
01 Second Amendment - Wotan Rains on a Plutocrat Parade
02 Love Axis - Legends of the SS
03 Aesthetic Meat Front - The Curious Pediatrician
04 Nazi UFO Commander - Hello Columbus
05 Artefactum/Horologium - Stillborn
06 Testing Vault - Charlotte's Glass Eye
07 Lark Blames with Rodolfo Protti - Listen Somewhat Awkward
08 Dead Man's Hill - Pumpernickel Crust
09 Oneiric Imperium Hymn to the Gernius of Idi Amin
10 Angel of Decay The Oven
11 Macelleria Mobile Di Mezzanotte - The 23 Definitions of Love
12 Shining Vril - Sandra Lindsey
13 Teatro Satanico - El Medio + El Mecan
14 Der Bekannte Post Industrielle Trompeter - Gift
15 Bleiburg - Last Belch of the Fish

It’s an All Star cast of the new folk movement who feature on this homage to David E. Williams from Old Europa Cafe in a double compact disc collective sharing an appreciation for the satirist and literary jack the ripper, the sound of screams and all. It’s a huge tribute of thirty eight of the more well-known dark acts in the underworld of experimental new songform who are fascinated with the macabre grin of the music output of the artist to whom they are inspired.

Split not just in two discs, “The Appeal of Discarded Orthodoxy” is split according to genre ‘titling’ as disc one, Pop and Folk, and disc two, as Contra Pop and Folk. Given the second track of the first disc (Pop and Fol), Der Feuekreiner’s rattling industrialism of ‘Game Warden’ on discards the demarcations put in place.

Some acts reinterpret, others mimic, some massacre, mixing and splicing more bizarre trinkets into the music as if Mr. Williams were not enough. The music ranges the lush baroque pop of Rome’s familiar sound tastefully rendering ‘A Man Needs a Man Friend’ to punk-goth pogo of Womb with ‘The Girl from the D’n D. It soon becomes apparent that this is a deeply varied compilation. Ernte’s German translated version of I Have Forgotten How to Love You (as ‘Ich Hab’ Vergessen Wie Man Dich Liebt’) with euro-folk acoustics is an especial gem for its novelty. Indeed there are many excellent euro-folk examples of Mr. Williams re-visioned work on the first disc, with Foresta di Ferro’s bouzuki propelled wine sing-along of ‘I’m in Love with the Ambulance Driver’ to Division S’ black-smeared torch song render of ‘The Ballad of Bob Crane’.

Disc two unleashes with the operatic oratorio Second Ammendment making puissant ‘Wotan Rains on a Plutocrat Parade’, with its line Aryan preponderance sweetly disturbing. Aesthetic Meat Front slithers out a gutter gore march for ‘The Curious Pediatrician’, spitting in noise and the slop of sound. Argento-esque Artefactum and Horologium commingle for a twisted little piece of horrific emptiness menaced by a feminine melody of triple la’s stalked by snarled lyrics. Macelleria Mobile Di Mezzanotte summon a jazz night-club dripping in red drapes and blood in ‘The 23 Definitions Of Love’, more a visitation than a performance, one that leaves an indelibly delicious unease.

All in all, it is a diverse and fresh compilation that crams variety down your gullet like a starved and perpetually eating young bird, whether or not you’re absolutely hungry, your belly will be at least full by the end.

Black and white, stark noir, the double digipak is a triple gatefold of heavy card featuring an eight-page glossy booklet sleeved on the cover. Artwork watches man become skeletal and vice versa while gay girls from another era dance through the clear disc trays.