The Trials Of Cato will play their new album Gog Magog when they appear at The Star Inn in Guildford on October 22 at 7.30pm.

They are Robin Jones, Tomos Williams and Polly Bolton, who all sing and between them play acoustic guitar, mandolin, Irish bouzouki, tenor banjo and keyboards.

Gog Magog is The Trials of Cato’s second album and it will be released on November 25. Still flying the flag of folk music, Gog Magog sees the band pull harder than ever on the genre’s familiar frame to create something utterly arresting and modern.

Capitalising on their enforced closeting during the pandemic, The Trials Of Cato have undoubtedly evolved during this period, boiling down the energy of their early years into a bold new sound.

The resulting album presents the broadest spectrum of their collective talents yet, a product of swallowing the folk tradition whole and re-imagining it in a contemporary context.

Gog Magog is awash with a spray of styles, ranging from neo-traditional interpretations of Welsh language poetry to current-day plague songs, as well as unexpected instrumental explorations of the outer edges of folktronica and trad-jazz. Tying it all together is still The Trials’ appetite for flights of adventure, anchored firmly by quality compositions and fabulous playing.