The atmosphere builds gradually, the sound rising and falling as TDFA coax pulsing beats and a tidal ebb and flow of music. The natural world is at the heart of The Diamond Family sound and their songs shift like the seasons. - Zero Tolerance

TDFA play a hybrid of traditional folk wrapped in melancholic psychedelic soundscapes that paint picturesque portraits of the
English countryside. - avenoctum

The Diamond Family Archive are a unique English lo-fi, psych-rock, multi-instrumentalist roving ensemble from The South Hams in Devon, based around the guitar playing and song writing of Laurence Collyer.

Live, either solo or with band, The Diamond Family Archive craft a mesmeric live-show from drums,acoustic guitars, lots of FX pedals, keyboards set to drone, tape delay,loops and bellows, bows, harmonicas, cosmic harps, cassettes, 4-tracks, toys and broken cymbals. All coming together to create music which holds echos of post-rock, traditional folk, spiritual soul music, sychedelic rock and lo-fi.

Foot-stomping, finger-picking, hollering vs pin-drop hush - fragile, lazy grace.

In the last year alone The Diamond Family Archive have played shows in Austria, Belgium, Germany, Holland, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and the UK.

The Diamond Family Archive have been quietly releasing records, tapes and CDs through a handful of labels (Dinosaur Club {USA}, Tired Trails {USA}, Woodland Recordings {UK/GER}, A Beard of Snails {Denmark}, MAP Recordings {UK}, Stone Tape {UK}, Lynch(ed) {UK}, Pegdoll {UK} and many others.