In my 2012 review of The Cloisters, I had writ­ten about how the ima­gined land­scape (Bri­tain, in these cases) fea­tures so strongly in some strains of con­tem­por­ary exper­i­mental folk music. Gran­ted, this has been a cent­ral theme in folk since the 60s revival, but as I argue, the ease with which elec­tronic manip­u­la­tion can be applied these days has really influ­enced some of the more exper­i­mental folk works in the past dec­ade or so. This heightened inter­play of the ‘acous­tic’ and elec­tronic, and in a broader sense, between the rural and the urban, makes for a lim­inal artistic and ima­gin­ary field that is find­ing dif­fer­ent forms of expres­sion these days.