Plinth – Albatross (Dead Slack String Records)  When a CD comes in felt lined packaging, a due consideration has undoubtedly been given to the protection of it. Plinth’s Albatross is the CD in question, and the fragility and delicacy of the music etched into the polycarbonate really does warrant it.  Named - and recorded - in homage to Fleetwood Mac’s “Albatross”, across Plinth’s “Albatross I” to “Albatross IV”, Michael Tanner et al, conceptualise clear blue skies and what it would feel like to catch the wind and glide above the sea. Flawlessly placed guitar, harp and piano notes are swept gently upwards by harmonium and gently downwards by bowed dulcimer. Starting out as an idea to simply cover the entirety of Fleetwood Mac’s masterpiece, the result bares some resemblance but, in Tanner’s own words: “In the art of failing miserably, something new was created.” www.deadslackstring.com Willsk Next