I've been seeing Buzzard buzzing (hehe) around the Bluesky metal sphere and earnestly meant to check them out for over a year and never managed to quite commit - I'm very sorry I waited this long. Doom-folk is not a common genre mashup and yet Mr. Elliott makes it feel completely natural, as if the pair were stereotypical twins with opposite fashion senses who nevertheless move as one. The lyrics are the clearest distillation of the folk ethos: blisteringly direct diatribes on the state of the modern world intertwined with passages that yearn for a return to nature and a rejection of our hyper-commodified culture. Finger-picked acoustic guitar weaves in and out between fuzzy, heavy riffs - this is not your modern funeral doom or even stoner doom (though the influence is present) but something with drive and urgency more related to Sabbath and, with the occasional addition of organ (which might actually be more guitar with heavy effects), classic Deep Purple. As a unit, "Everything Is Not Going To Be Alright" is a bittersweet love letter to an America we were told to believe in but no longer exists, simmering the rage that should burn in all our hearts against the injustice and perversion of values we see before us. A tightly crafted masterpiece, Buzzard should be regular listening for anyone who enjoys folk, fuzz, and fury.