Beautifully warm, quiet, tender and bucolic new folk LP by the Yorkshire-based singer-songwriter, following a pastoral tradition of landscapes literal and emotional, very much influenced by and echoing the delivery of Nick Drake, as well as having some parallels with contemporary Johnny Flynn. Filled with thoughtful restraint, storytelling, yearning, images of birds and the changing seasons, watching nature’s cycles and expressing quiet uncertainties, the album is bookended by the title track, and closes, appropriately, with Out Til Evenings End. There are positive threads and new beginnings running through the album, and there’s on All That Goes Around, for example, with a gentle country fiddle along with his acoustic guitar, he softly sings how “the pale moon reminds us that we are alive / Don’t let the feeling drag you down, / There’s beauty in all that goes around.” With occasional gentle additions of woodwind, pedal steel, and other instruments, it’s a sparse, soothing sound, and particularly lovely, alongside the title track, are When All Is Said And Done, Bright March Morning Day, and Kinds of Kindness, the latter especially tender and a prime example of his fine finger-picking technique, and ability to use subtle string harmonics. Gentle and calming, perfect for a quiet evening or a woodland stroll. Out on Big Sun Records.
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