As John Martyn’s Bless the Weather drifts toward its close, “Glistening Glyndebourne” quietly detonates the boundaries of British folk. What begins as haze — echo, fingerpicked fragments, drifting piano — gradually reveals something stranger and more radical: Martyn using effects, repetition, and rhythm to transform the guitar into an entirely new instrument. In retrospect, the track feels less like an outlier than a doorway into the restless, genre-warping work that would define the next decade of his career . . .
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