Musically gentle and reflective, this is beautiful acoustic folk-pop by the singer-songwriter from Kent in a debut that’s both candid and dream-like, fuelled by a sense of complete dislocation from a move to a new town, lockdown, solitude and a traumatic break-up. Last Night, with guitar and gorgeous rippling harp (which features regularly through the album), is a soft meditation on a connection within a dream, written quickly after waking up in the caravan in which she was staying. In Bloom is another standout – a serene sound but being about going through trauma and “being stuck in a perpetual heart attack” in a state of trying to concentrate on beautiful scenery. Fighting On The Wing is spring song, metaphorically and literally filled with lderflower and birds and explosions of green and is described as a tentative unfurling into peace in the face of relentless human desire to over-analyse. The song echoes the sentiment of the poem The Peace Of Wild Things’ by Wendell Berry. Other highlights include the beautiful chamber folk of It’ll Never Be Enough in which “I watched the decade end from the safety of my double bed”, Into The Water, the cutting There’s Got To Be A Loser Babe, and soft piano-based closer Maybe. An understated, sensitive, sensual, quietly tantalising debut. Out on Blue Flowers Music.
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