One year on from Life Isn’t A Fountain?, U returns with ARCHENFIELD, a deeper dive into the Herefordshire borderlands where English and Welsh histories blur with myth and memory. Across fourteen tracks built from traditional song, home-taped snippets and scraps of TV, radio, film and YouTube, U shapes a drifting folkloric collage exploring how stories shift through retelling and how landscapes hold collective memory. If the previous EP channelled Thatcher-era discontent through fractured post-punk, ARCHENFIELD widens the frame to examine the ties between identity and the rural environments that shape it. Dusty pianos, drones and spectral voices evoke a modern England slipping from its past. To mark the release, U delivers IA MIX 397, diving into post-punk, new wave and forgotten micro-scenes. The mix mirrors the album’s core idea: how remnants of the past persist, mutate and speak to the uncertainties of the present.
