Edito de A Lick And a Promise?Warm Room? is the fourth album from The Big Eyes Family Players, after ?Do The Musiking? (Pickled Egg 2006), Donkeysongs (Rusted Rail 2008) and ?Folk Songs? - by James Yorkston & The Big Eyes Family Players (Domino 2009). The album was conceived initially as an ?ode? to folk music. Those perhaps expecting an album of string-led polkas and klezmer-styled pieces may be a little surprised. On this occasion, the Players have yet again taken another shape. As ever, led by captain James Green (vocals, guitar, piano, harmonium, cello, percussion, shahi baja, loops, organ, harp, zither), the album features Ellie Bond on violin, Gemma Green on harmonium, Chris Boyd on drums and Heather Ditch on vocals. Rather than necessarily being an album of folk material, ?Warm Room? is an attempt to dissect the genre, albeit through the Big Eyes filter and focuses in on those individual elements. There are ?songs?, in the form of the traditional pieces (the despairing ?False True Love?) and original numbers (the dream-story ?White Bones? and bloody Spanish lament ?Rojo?), but elsewhere the focus is on texture, the landscape and the mood of the traditional folk form, and is reflected in pieces such as the love-song-raga ?A Lick and A Promise?, the pastoral ecstasy of ?Galapagos?, the chaotic skip of ?The Great Pin Dance? and closer ?Song for Newborough Warren? (inspired by the great sand dunes of the nature reserve on Anglesey, Wales).