Anyone who has ever spent any considerable time in the UK's godforsaken capital will immediately concur with the sentiment expressed in the title - some has gotta liberate that place from the clutches of style-mag/media-centred mediocrity and soon. Bo'Weavil, a label that has done a lot to upgrade a host of key folk sides to deluxe vinyl, is the first to strike a blow with this nicely presented double LP in a hand-numbered edition of 550 copies on heavyweight vinyl that gives a side each to four artists dedicated to expanding free/folk tongues. Rob Mullender plays acoustic guitar instrumentals that fit nicely into the whole post-60s Pentangle/Davey Graham school of sorcery. Wooden Spoon plays acoustic and electric guitar and banjo and his banjo playing is particularly strong, stubby percussive forms that sound like rusty ragas nailed to tiny wooden crosses. The Eidetic Band are a trio that work non-idiomatic allusion that vaguely touches on Volcano The Bear/People Band style notions of freedom while still referencing established UK modes of improvised dialogue via bass, cello, tone generator, zither, laptop, guitar, power tools, sax, keyboard et al. Ladyswoodsman are the duo of Luke Garwood and Paul May who play guitars, clarinets, percussion and un-nameables across a series of rhythmic, improvisatory modes.