(Tompkins Square)We don’t know what multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter Brigid Mae Power has been through. As she is a relative newcomer,there are scant biographical pegs on which to hang this extraordinary, reverberating album, and so full of feeling: born in London,raised in Galway, spent time in unusual York. Power is the sole parent of a young son. She’s heard Joni Mitchell and John Fahey too.
The specifics of Power’s plot arent essential to the appreciation of this spacious record, and recorded in Oregon in the studio of artist/producer Peter Broderick; merely an appreciation of what mantrically strummed guitars,pianos, hovering strings, and pump organs and a cupboardful of studio textures can achieve alongside a startling voice,at once fluttery and steadfast, that has come out the other side of something, and touching transcendence on the way.
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Source: theguardian.com