"Britain's finest neo-medieval psychedelic folk-rock band"

As I walked away from HMV this afternoon I thought to myself:

"Ooh, I've just gone and bought my first mainstream album in years. It's been ages since I last bothered with anything from 'downstairs' in HMV."

Preferring rather such musical subtleties as charity-shop fayre (a veritable trove of discounted obscurity), online purchases of Christian bands famous only within very limited circles, and the scope of HMV's 'upstairs' range of Classical, soundtracks and showtunes.

Then it occurred that perhaps Circulus still doesn't quite count as Mainstream. A septet of fellows and a fellowess from Plumsted, who dress in a combination of what was cool in 1970 and 1270, playing songs about scarecrows and pixies on unpronounceable wind instruments, blended with layered, floating electronic prog rock.

After its nationwide release on Monday, the Bath branch of HMV still had all of the three copies which they'd been supplied with, meaning that I was the first to take one of these from their shelves. Possibly a mite less frantic than the imminent release of another certain product blending the mystical with the modern. Counting down the hours to a book release, indeed?