THE Deep Dark Woods, plus guests Kacy and Clayton will play at the Railway Inn, Winchester on Wednesday.

The band have developed an international following with particular success in the Americana realm, nominated alongside Alabama Shakes and Dawes for Emerging Artist of the Year at the 2012 Americana Music Awards.

Originally from Saskatchewan and now based on the west coast, The Deep Dark Woods fuse spooky prairie folk with Texas country blues and California psychedelia.

Floods and plagues, ghosts and slaughter: woe to those who populate the songs of The Deep Dark Woods’ new album, Yarrow.

In Yarrow, there’s a juicy unease to frontman Ryan Boldt’s presence, as if a new door has opened to let loose the weirdness. In place of the freewheelin’ jammy vibe of previous efforts, the new album has a darker, stranger tenor.

After a five-year hiatus and band reconfiguration, Yarrow is The Deep Dark Woods reimagined by leadman Ryan Boldt., who writes in a deep tradition of bleak and forlorn storytelling.