Earth bow

"[Sarah Louise] first broke cover last decade with a string of lovely, singular guitar solo albums. Louise also recorded two gorgeous LPs of beautiful folk-drone constructs with Black Twig Pickers member Sally Anne Morgan as House & Land. Significant changes came with Louise's own 2019 record Nighttime Birds And Morning Stars, though, where she turned a radical corner, her guitar interfacing with electronics in feverishly creative ways ... Earth Bow continues those experiments, though now they feel (...) more like part of the fundamental bedrock of Louise's compositions. There's something natural, fungal almost, about the way the electronics spill and expand across the 10 songs of Earth Bow; it's no surprise to discover that she has lived in rural Appalachia for a decade, and has a strong, intuitive relationship with the natural world ... There's a continual sense of wonder throughout the album, of unexpected developments, and yet what's most impressive is the way everything here - and it's a busy album in some respects, genre-defiant in its openness - sits together so well. Everything flows".

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