Grave Mounds and Grave Mistakes

A Forest of Stars' second album for Prophecy Productions channels medieval folk atmospherics and cosmic dread into hour-long instrumental passages that feel equally at home in a haunted forest or a dimly lit planetarium. The UK collective layers hurdy-gurdy, strings, and synthesizers into what amounts to darkly romantic post-rock with pagan undercurrents—less concerned with traditional song structure than with sustained mood and textural accumulation. Grave Mounds and Grave Mistakes confirms their position as one of the label’s most architecturally ambitious acts.