DoomFolk StarterKit is the recording project of Portland, Oregon-based David Swick. The project began as a creative outlet for Swick, an exercise in creativity and intuition which saw him record songs in an hour-long time limit and then upload the finished product to Bandcamp, no matter its final state.
Then, last summer DoomFolk StarterKit released SleepyGhost, a five song EP that explored themes of apathy and conflict avoidance, which caught the attention of Nashville label Like You Mean It Records. A couple of weeks ago, this collaboration bore its first fruit—a brand new single ‘Old Times’. But that’s not all, DoomFolk StarterKit also contributed a track to the inaugural Like You Mean It Records sampler, a release the label describe as:
“Like strolling through the meat and cheese section of the grocery store in heaven, our samples are endlessly delicious and infinitely savory […] the culmination of a continuously growing and eager community of musicians hungry to collaborate and champion each other’s art.”
The track is a cover of Gillian Welch’s ‘Look at Miss Ohio,’ a song which shares a juxtaposition between peace and anxiety with Swick’s own work. “For me, this song depicts the story of someone choosing to embrace ambiguity,” he describes, “while living with the hope that it’s going to shake out alright, somehow.” Check it out below: