Great limited LP on Jeremy Earl of Woods/Woodsist’s new label. Herbcraft is the solo project of Matthew Lajoie of Cursillistas, birthed in a fever dream inspired by Jefferson Starship’s classic Blows Against The Empire and Admiral Richard Byrd’s secret diary where Lajoie imagined a lost 1973 concept album about the discovery of the inner earth and the lost world of Agartha. Recorded in 24 hours, Discovers The Bitter Water Of Agartha is a stunning navigation of druggy Matthew Valentine/Spectrasound styled psychedelic folk, with a thick smoke of F/X masking some fantastic rural rock that at points sounds like a 90s underground take on Skip Spence’s Oar or a Dead bootleg on Majora. Either way this is a solid winner. Edition of 500 copies. Recommended.