Countless branches

"Countless Branches is singer/songwriter's Bill Fay's third album for Dead Oceans. He walked away after cutting two acclaimed but commercially unsuccessful albums for Deram in the early 1970s ... Countless Branches, perhaps due to its profound yet intimate vision as well as its craft, just may be Fay's masterpiece".

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"Had Jeff Tweedy not chosen to cover Be Not So Fearful in the 2002 Wilco documentary I Am Trying To Break Your Heart, the song's writer might today still be the relatively underground and unheralded figure he'd been for the previous three decades. The interest it rekindled in the music of Bill Fay led not only to his long-deleted back catalogue being reissued, but also to the now 76-year-old releasing a trio of new albums in the last seven years ... This is an album of big themes, celebrating the ancient and mystical, the human and the spiritual, the constancy of good versus the cruelty of evil, and songs of childhood, of ageing, and of death. It's a lot to take in, and fresh corridors reveal themselves with each listen; it's questionable whether they lead to any answers, and Fay would be the last person to claim they do, but it's an intriguing exploration every step of the way".

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"Med albummet 'Countless Branches' har Fay skabt et mesterværk ... Melodierne bæres af en minimal instrumentering - som oftest klaver, guitar, cello - og er klare som kildevand ... Albummet varer blot 30 minutter (deluxe-udgaven rummer flere af numrene med stort band). Men alene de første fire numre er nyklassikere".

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