“I’m not one for being quaint and quiet. I’m doing this because I have to.”
Down the pit: Jim Ghedi grapples with a dark place and time.
Scott Hukins
ON THE COVER of his daunting fourth solo LP, goth-folk daemon Jim Ghedi sits exhausted in an abandoned quarry, dressed as a distressed 17th-century dandy. As he tells MOJO, it was the only way that he could visually sum upWasteland: an electrically-charged mix of traditional songs and eerie originals which reckons with the collapse of the old order and the extremes of 21st-century living.