A winding guitar opens the latest track by low-key psych-folk duo The Tulips, "Scorpio Moon", overlayed with a slow-burning organ that’s endowed with a melancholy, mournful yearn. The languid pace is conveyed with seductive splendour, and the Macarthur residents make hurt sound beautiful in the spacious, burning sorrow that persists. The song’s sense of ghostly detachment partly symbolizes their second full-length, Echo Blue, which was recorded in uncanny locales such as the basement of an old historic building and a cathedral church. Echo Blue is coming out sometime in early 2015.
