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Brigadoon is the artist name for singer-songwriter, poet and writer Barnaby Smith. A one-time member of several other folk-influenced projects, he has been silent for several years, but is now re-emerging — to an extent — with the forthcoming solo album, <i>Itch Factor</i>, self-recorded in what is essentially a rickety garden shed in the hinterland of the Northern Rivers, New South Wales. The record can be regarded as a lo-fi and scruffy kind of outsider folk, with harmonies and lyrics pulling the majority of the emotional weight. Taking his cue from artists such as Amen Dunes, Richard Dawson, Cory Hanson, Cass McCombs, Daniel Johnston, Lone Pigeon and Tim Buckley, these songs are intended to be in equal parts primitive, uncompromising and experimental, as well as wistful and mysterious.