With easily the most beautiful and delicate LP of the week, the Scottish singer-multi-instrumentalist returns with a gorgeous blend of psych-folk, her gentle voice poetically capturing nature’s patterns with threads of orchestral strings, electronica, and some guest guitar by Ride’s Andy Bell. The strings are provided by London Contemporary Orchestra, plus other players from Scotland, and some arrangements by Hannah Peel. Overall it’s an expansion in sound and scope from 2021’s LP Heart-Shaped Scars, which was a big comeback LP after a decade’s absence, and every track is a gem, from opener Shyness of Crowns (about the behaviour of trees and how they socially distance at the crown of the woods), to particular standouts Unchanged, where she’s joined by Bell on guitar (also on Double Rainbow) which opens up into a wonderful, stirring chorus, the exquisite Bleached By The Sun (with Zoë Bestel), the mesmeric electronica and interweaving vocals of 220Hz (relationg to the he frequency at which tree roots communicate beneath the ground), and the Brian Wilson-style harmonies of Moon Flowers, all the way to closing track Weeping Roses. Out on Sonic Cathedral.
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