105: Bridget Hayden and The Apparitions - Lovely on the Water
You know where you are from the first aching note of Bridget Hayden's astonishing new album: steeped in drizzle, high upon a hill, looking out across weather-beaten moorland. That might feel a little too on-the-nose as descriptors go but those elements - the land, the weather - were fundamental to the making of Cold Blows The Rain, in both inspirations and physical form.
The album itself is released on January 10th and is announced this week via its skeletal, haunting opener 'Lovely On The Water' - a drifting five-minutes that acts as the album's perfect curtain raiser. Released via Basin Rock, the ever-engaging label based in the same curious English town as Bridget, the album is a collection of reinterpreted traditional folk songs that mine a beguiling mix between drone and folk, a worthy addition to the likes of Lisa O'Neil, The Unthanks, and similarly bewitching artists.
'Lovely On The Water' is indicative of all that follows across the album's eight tracks, Hayden's beautiful voice, all faded in flight, surrounded by The Apparitions (not a band in fact, but a reference to the "ghosts" that appear in these songs) all swelling and rolling and blurring against the hills, grey upon grey and completely fascinating.
Pre-order the album here, via Basin Rock
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