Beautifully stark, slow, vividly lyrical, bathed in warm resonator guitar with gentle percussion and violin, and the sensitive, resonant voice of Amelia Baker, whose folk songs are inspired by and capturing her Californian coast upbringing and beloved rural Ireland home. Filled with images of and encounters with birds, animals, and landscapes, it’s a gorgeous record, as much warm Laurel Canyon as her self-described ‘doom folk’ and needs to be soaked in by the listener on woodland walk with headphones or a quiet evening at home. Expanding her sound, percussion comes from Baker’s old friend friend Phillip Rogers (Haley Heynderickx), and electric guitar and expansive string parts courtesy Cormac MacDiarmada of Lankum. Standout tracks include the exquisite opener Two Heads, Grey Mare (a former Song of the Day), about a human spending a night with a selkie, a Celtic and Norse mythological seal-folk creature, who comes out of the water. There’s also the slow, meditative, minimalist title track, and unusually for Baker, in a major key, Overgrown, the vividly dark Crow, Gone The Holding, and A Scorched Lament. Of parallel quality to Scotland’s Kathryn Joseph. Out on Free Dirt Records, Buzzin' Fly Records / Virgin.
New to comment? It is quick and easy. You just need to login to Disqus once. All is explained in About/FAQs ...
Feel free to recommend more new songs and albums and comment below. You can also use the contact page, or find more on social media: Song Bar Twitter, Song Bar Facebook. Song Bar YouTube, and Song Bar Instagram. Please subscribe, follow and share.
Song Bar is non-profit and is simply about sharing great music. We don’t do clickbait or advertisements. Please make any donation to help keep the Bar running: