Jim Ghedi - Wasteland
2026 VINYL REPRESS ON RED BLOOD (ON YOUR HANDS) COLOUR VINYL. 300 ONLY
#2 MOJO BEST FOLK ALBUMS OF 2025.
MOJO ‘RISING’ FEATURE: ‘LIEGE & LETHAL! JIM GHEDI BRINGS ANCIENT FOLK DOOM INTO THE 21ST CENTURY’ …..
+ 4/5 REVIEW : ‘OLD STONES, WASTELAND AND WISHING TREE SUM UP THE
TIM-BUCKLEY-MEETS-RICHARD-THOMPSON-AT-THE-END-OF-THE-UNIVERSE VIBE. COLOSSAL.’
‘FOR FANS OF : LANKUM, SUNNO))), APHRODITE”S CHILD’ - MOJO.
9/10 ‘REVELATIONS’ REVIEW IN UNCUT : ‘YORKSHIRE FOLKSMITH’S RUMINATIVE, STORM-TOSSED MASTERWORK. GHEDI EXPERTLY SHAPES TRADITIONAL TUNES, COVERS AND DAZZLING ORIGINALS INTO A DEEPLY PERSONAL VISION’
‘Recalling the expansiveness of Liege & Lief and the droning reverberations of Lankum, this is an intense album , marking Ghedi out as an original voice with an ancient spirit’ 4/5 THE TIMES
"Wasteland is a folk renaissance masterpiece." 9/10 The Line Of Best Fit
"Ghedi’s combination of intensity and sublimity recalls Lankum to some extent, and yet where that band’s doom seems to descend from above like a thick black cloud, there’s something more earthen to Ghedi’s work – the horrific, terrifying beauty of a collapsing planet, turned into sound." The Quietus
‘You’re unlikely to experience a more intense trip of an album this year’ 5/5 SONGLINES
"Wasteland is exactly where British folk music should be today. A masterwork." 5/5 Morning Star
‘Ghedi’s stunningly evocative, intense mini-epics feel both entirely timeless and unmistakably contemporary’ THE YORKSHIRE POST
'The astonishing Wasteland (Basin Rock) from Sheffield’s Jim Ghedi was similarly huge, and deeply political'- The Morning Star Best Albums of 2025
"One for mounting your steed and venturing, howling, towards a boggy front line: the Sheffield folk musician gets brilliantly apocalyptic on this rallying, medieval-tinged battle cry." The Guardian on single Sheaf & Field.
- Third album from Sheffield folk artist blending traditional songs and original compositions to remarkable effect.
- 180gm heavyweight black vinyl / download code / gatefold sleeve.
On his new album Wasteland, Jim Ghedi has created something huge. Intense, brooding, bold, at times apocalyptic, and remarkably vast. A profoundly bold sonic statement that is some of the most rich, far-reaching and ambitious work that Ghedi has created to date - pushing the boundaries of what folk music can be in 2025.
Recorded over 2 years at Tesla Studios in Sheffield, with David Glover engineering and producing, it also features a wide cast of musicians such as David Grubb (fiddle), Daniel Bridgwood-Hill (fiddle), Neal Heppleston (bass), Joe Danks (drums), Dean Honer from I Monster (synths), Cormac MacDiarmada from Lankum (vocals), Ruth Clinton from Landless (vocals) and Amelia Baker from Cinder Well (vocals).
Wasteland is a record that is unafraid to plunge into the darkness of the modern world and embrace the weirder, edgier and more unnerving moments that come from doing so. It is an album that captures all the enormity of life from the micro to the macro, zooming in on the personal as well reflecting on broader societal issues.
Ghedi has always been an artist that in many ways perfectly encompasses folk music in its purest form but he is also someone that frequently pushes the boundaries of that label and no more so is that apparent than on this record. As like previous albums, such as 2018’s A Hymn for Ancient Land and 2021’s In the Furrows of Common Place, Ghedi uses traditional folk songs as a means to explore contemporary issues via modern and experimentally-leaning music. “With the traditional material on this album I wanted to find songs with content that resonated with me,” says Ghedi. “But also that were based roughly around the north of England.” This is a central underlying theme to the album for Ghedi. The feelings of loss, erosion, and degradation are often most pronounced in working class communities and this was something he wanted to weave in. “It was important to voice and choose material that represented or expressed issues that correlated with things going on around me.”
However, as remarkable as some of the traditional material is, some of the most arresting work on the album is Ghedi’s entirely original compositions. Lead single ‘Wasteland’ is a stunning piece of work that while rooted in an environment being corrupted and broken – “there’s violence on these hills” Ghedi sorrowfully sings, before claiming this is no longer somewhere that can be called home – it is also a stirringly beautiful composition that soars and glides as it opens up, as sweeping strings swoop and in and out of Ghedi’s twangy electric guitar.
The decision to incorporate more fuller sounds, such as electric guitar and huge drums, results in a notable shift and evolution in tone for Ghedi. “The lyrical content needed something more band-driven and loud to deliver them,” he explains. “Incorporating the electric guitar in my songwriting was also a big part of opening the sound up, using drop tunings pushed me to use my voice in a wider range, which forced me to use falsetto a lot which I haven’t previously done before. That then opened the sound up and gave me creative ideas for bigger arrangements and to sonically really push things.”
What Ghedi has done in creating his masterpiece is construct a remarkable space where deeply intimate and personal feelings coexist with reflections on environment, place and society, while also interweaving historical context via traditional songs. Wasteland is as much of a world to explore and exist in as much as it is an album, with Ghedi carving out his distinctly unique sonic language and voice to explore that singular environment.
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2026 VINYL REPRESS ON RED BLOOD (ON YOUR HANDS) COLOUR VINYL. 300 ONLY
#2 MOJO BEST FOLK ALBUMS OF 2025.
MOJO ‘RISING’ FEATURE: ‘LIEGE & LETHAL! JIM GHEDI BRINGS ANCIENT FOLK DOOM INTO THE 21ST CENTURY’ …..
+ 4/5 REVIEW : ‘OLD STONES, WASTELAND AND WISHING TREE SUM UP THE
TIM-BUCKLEY-MEETS-RICHARD-THOMPSON-AT-THE-END-OF-THE-UNIVERSE VIBE. COLOSSAL.’
‘FOR FANS OF : LANKUM, SUNNO))), APHRODITE”S CHILD’ - MOJO.
9/10 ‘REVELATIONS’ REVIEW IN UNCUT : ‘YORKSHIRE FOLKSMITH’S RUMINATIVE, STORM-TOSSED MASTERWORK. GHEDI EXPERTLY SHAPES TRADITIONAL TUNES, COVERS AND DAZZLING ORIGINALS INTO A DEEPLY PERSONAL VISION’
‘Recalling the expansiveness of Liege & Lief and the droning reverberations of Lankum, this is an intense album , marking Ghedi out as an original voice with an ancient spirit’ 4/5 THE TIMES
"Wasteland is a folk renaissance masterpiece." 9/10 The Line Of Best Fit
"Ghedi’s combination of intensity and sublimity recalls Lankum to some extent, and yet where that band’s doom seems to descend from above like a thick black cloud, there’s something more earthen to Ghedi’s work – the horrific, terrifying beauty of a collapsing planet, turned into sound." The Quietus
‘You’re unlikely to experience a more intense trip of an album this year’ 5/5 SONGLINES
"Wasteland is exactly where British folk music should be today. A masterwork." 5/5 Morning Star
‘Ghedi’s stunningly evocative, intense mini-epics feel both entirely timeless and unmistakably contemporary’ THE YORKSHIRE POST
'The astonishing Wasteland (Basin Rock) from Sheffield’s Jim Ghedi was similarly huge, and deeply political'- The Morning Star Best Albums of 2025
"One for mounting your steed and venturing, howling, towards a boggy front line: the Sheffield folk musician gets brilliantly apocalyptic on this rallying, medieval-tinged battle cry." The Guardian on single Sheaf & Field.
- Third album from Sheffield folk artist blending traditional songs and original compositions to remarkable effect.
- 180gm heavyweight black vinyl / download code / gatefold sleeve.
On his new album Wasteland, Jim Ghedi has created something huge. Intense, brooding, bold, at times apocalyptic, and remarkably vast. A profoundly bold sonic statement that is some of the most rich, far-reaching and ambitious work that Ghedi has created to date - pushing the boundaries of what folk music can be in 2025.
Recorded over 2 years at Tesla Studios in Sheffield, with David Glover engineering and producing, it also features a wide cast of musicians such as David Grubb (fiddle), Daniel Bridgwood-Hill (fiddle), Neal Heppleston (bass), Joe Danks (drums), Dean Honer from I Monster (synths), Cormac MacDiarmada from Lankum (vocals), Ruth Clinton from Landless (vocals) and Amelia Baker from Cinder Well (vocals).
Wasteland is a record that is unafraid to plunge into the darkness of the modern world and embrace the weirder, edgier and more unnerving moments that come from doing so. It is an album that captures all the enormity of life from the micro to the macro, zooming in on the personal as well reflecting on broader societal issues.
Ghedi has always been an artist that in many ways perfectly encompasses folk music in its purest form but he is also someone that frequently pushes the boundaries of that label and no more so is that apparent than on this record. As like previous albums, such as 2018’s A Hymn for Ancient Land and 2021’s In the Furrows of Common Place, Ghedi uses traditional folk songs as a means to explore contemporary issues via modern and experimentally-leaning music. “With the traditional material on this album I wanted to find songs with content that resonated with me,” says Ghedi. “But also that were based roughly around the north of England.” This is a central underlying theme to the album for Ghedi. The feelings of loss, erosion, and degradation are often most pronounced in working class communities and this was something he wanted to weave in. “It was important to voice and choose material that represented or expressed issues that correlated with things going on around me.”
However, as remarkable as some of the traditional material is, some of the most arresting work on the album is Ghedi’s entirely original compositions. Lead single ‘Wasteland’ is a stunning piece of work that while rooted in an environment being corrupted and broken – “there’s violence on these hills” Ghedi sorrowfully sings, before claiming this is no longer somewhere that can be called home – it is also a stirringly beautiful composition that soars and glides as it opens up, as sweeping strings swoop and in and out of Ghedi’s twangy electric guitar.
The decision to incorporate more fuller sounds, such as electric guitar and huge drums, results in a notable shift and evolution in tone for Ghedi. “The lyrical content needed something more band-driven and loud to deliver them,” he explains. “Incorporating the electric guitar in my songwriting was also a big part of opening the sound up, using drop tunings pushed me to use my voice in a wider range, which forced me to use falsetto a lot which I haven’t previously done before. That then opened the sound up and gave me creative ideas for bigger arrangements and to sonically really push things.”
What Ghedi has done in creating his masterpiece is construct a remarkable space where deeply intimate and personal feelings coexist with reflections on environment, place and society, while also interweaving historical context via traditional songs. Wasteland is as much of a world to explore and exist in as much as it is an album, with Ghedi carving out his distinctly unique sonic language and voice to explore that singular environment.
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2026 VINYL REPRESS ON RED BLOOD (ON YOUR HANDS) COLOUR VINYL. 300 ONLY
#2 MOJO BEST FOLK ALBUMS OF 2025.
MOJO ‘RISING’ FEATURE: ‘LIEGE & LETHAL! JIM GHEDI BRINGS ANCIENT FOLK DOOM INTO THE 21ST CENTURY’ …..
+ 4/5 REVIEW : ‘OLD STONES, WASTELAND AND WISHING TREE SUM UP THE
TIM-BUCKLEY-MEETS-RICHARD-THOMPSON-AT-THE-END-OF-THE-UNIVERSE VIBE. COLOSSAL.’
‘FOR FANS OF : LANKUM, SUNNO))), APHRODITE”S CHILD’ - MOJO.
9/10 ‘REVELATIONS’ REVIEW IN UNCUT : ‘YORKSHIRE FOLKSMITH’S RUMINATIVE, STORM-TOSSED MASTERWORK. GHEDI EXPERTLY SHAPES TRADITIONAL TUNES, COVERS AND DAZZLING ORIGINALS INTO A DEEPLY PERSONAL VISION’
‘Recalling the expansiveness of Liege & Lief and the droning reverberations of Lankum, this is an intense album , marking Ghedi out as an original voice with an ancient spirit’ 4/5 THE TIMES
"Wasteland is a folk renaissance masterpiece." 9/10 The Line Of Best Fit
"Ghedi’s combination of intensity and sublimity recalls Lankum to some extent, and yet where that band’s doom seems to descend from above like a thick black cloud, there’s something more earthen to Ghedi’s work – the horrific, terrifying beauty of a collapsing planet, turned into sound." The Quietus
‘You’re unlikely to experience a more intense trip of an album this year’ 5/5 SONGLINES
"Wasteland is exactly where British folk music should be today. A masterwork." 5/5 Morning Star
‘Ghedi’s stunningly evocative, intense mini-epics feel both entirely timeless and unmistakably contemporary’ THE YORKSHIRE POST
'The astonishing Wasteland (Basin Rock) from Sheffield’s Jim Ghedi was similarly huge, and deeply political'- The Morning Star Best Albums of 2025
"One for mounting your steed and venturing, howling, towards a boggy front line: the Sheffield folk musician gets brilliantly apocalyptic on this rallying, medieval-tinged battle cry." The Guardian on single Sheaf & Field.
- Third album from Sheffield folk artist blending traditional songs and original compositions to remarkable effect.
- 180gm heavyweight black vinyl / download code / gatefold sleeve.
On his new album Wasteland, Jim Ghedi has created something huge. Intense, brooding, bold, at times apocalyptic, and remarkably vast. A profoundly bold sonic statement that is some of the most rich, far-reaching and ambitious work that Ghedi has created to date - pushing the boundaries of what folk music can be in 2025.
Recorded over 2 years at Tesla Studios in Sheffield, with David Glover engineering and producing, it also features a wide cast of musicians such as David Grubb (fiddle), Daniel Bridgwood-Hill (fiddle), Neal Heppleston (bass), Joe Danks (drums), Dean Honer from I Monster (synths), Cormac MacDiarmada from Lankum (vocals), Ruth Clinton from Landless (vocals) and Amelia Baker from Cinder Well (vocals).
Wasteland is a record that is unafraid to plunge into the darkness of the modern world and embrace the weirder, edgier and more unnerving moments that come from doing so. It is an album that captures all the enormity of life from the micro to the macro, zooming in on the personal as well reflecting on broader societal issues.
Ghedi has always been an artist that in many ways perfectly encompasses folk music in its purest form but he is also someone that frequently pushes the boundaries of that label and no more so is that apparent than on this record. As like previous albums, such as 2018’s A Hymn for Ancient Land and 2021’s In the Furrows of Common Place, Ghedi uses traditional folk songs as a means to explore contemporary issues via modern and experimentally-leaning music. “With the traditional material on this album I wanted to find songs with content that resonated with me,” says Ghedi. “But also that were based roughly around the north of England.” This is a central underlying theme to the album for Ghedi. The feelings of loss, erosion, and degradation are often most pronounced in working class communities and this was something he wanted to weave in. “It was important to voice and choose material that represented or expressed issues that correlated with things going on around me.”
However, as remarkable as some of the traditional material is, some of the most arresting work on the album is Ghedi’s entirely original compositions. Lead single ‘Wasteland’ is a stunning piece of work that while rooted in an environment being corrupted and broken – “there’s violence on these hills” Ghedi sorrowfully sings, before claiming this is no longer somewhere that can be called home – it is also a stirringly beautiful composition that soars and glides as it opens up, as sweeping strings swoop and in and out of Ghedi’s twangy electric guitar.
The decision to incorporate more fuller sounds, such as electric guitar and huge drums, results in a notable shift and evolution in tone for Ghedi. “The lyrical content needed something more band-driven and loud to deliver them,” he explains. “Incorporating the electric guitar in my songwriting was also a big part of opening the sound up, using drop tunings pushed me to use my voice in a wider range, which forced me to use falsetto a lot which I haven’t previously done before. That then opened the sound up and gave me creative ideas for bigger arrangements and to sonically really push things.”
What Ghedi has done in creating his masterpiece is construct a remarkable space where deeply intimate and personal feelings coexist with reflections on environment, place and society, while also interweaving historical context via traditional songs. Wasteland is as much of a world to explore and exist in as much as it is an album, with Ghedi carving out his distinctly unique sonic language and voice to explore that singular environment.
