Let's stomp! : Merseybeat and beyond 1962-1969
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The guardian
d. 14. Apr. 2023
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Jude Rogers
d. 14. Apr. 2023
"Multi-instrumentalist Amelia Baker conjures realms of poetic sound on a lush, complex, sometimes overwhelming album ... Her earlier work included earthy arrangements of Appalachian songs and Roud ballads, but on Cadence she is more interested in mythological expanses of poetry and sound than stormier swells of texture and drone. The album explores her love for the sea, as befits an artist who lives between her Pacific-side US birthplace and her adopted home town in coastal County Clare. She sings about it compellingly, in a strangely soft, mid-range rasp, like a peculiar cousin of Laura Veirs ... The string arrangements by Lankum's Cormac MacDiarmada deepen the mysteries within, but Cadence's tenor of slowness and lushness sometimes gets suffocating. When Baker strains her opening vocal on "Well on Fire", or hums eerily on the title track, the moments of danger and surprise are welcome. Nevertheless, this album of deep ideas and ambitions should dare many to wade with it into the water".
Folk radio UK
d. 21. Apr. 2023
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Thomas Blake
d. 21. Apr. 2023
"Nature, landscape and history loom large over Cadence, but in ways that are more subtle than you might expect: the memory of the Irish landscape, where Baker has spent much of her recent past, is juxtaposed with the California coast she calls home, and where the album was recorded ... There is also a mingling of musical elements: Gaelic folk rubbing shoulders with the Laurel Canyon sound to produce a sound that is both more mature and more raw than previous Cinder Well releases ... An album about the journeys we make through life, Cadence is itself something of a journey. Meandering, non-linear, but full of care and wisdom, it is an astonishingly powerful piece of work that seems to have been conceived in uncertainty but realised with the supreme assurance of one of the most consummate songwriters around".