I dreamt I was a bird

"I Dreamt I Was A Bird is a sterling example of all that is good about contemporary folk music in Britain today and looks set to establish Lucy Ward in her rightful place alongside the scene's "big names"".

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"After reaching the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award final in 2009, Lucy Ward has become one of the brightest lights on the English folk scene. Two very successful albums later, Ward once again teams up with producer Stu Hanna to produce a work that is, at once, a step beyond her previous efforts and, at the same time, a look back at her roots in folk music and storytelling ... I Dreamt I was a Bird is a brave and uncompromising album which, at times, is not an easy listen. But these songs combine both the personal and universal, and are sure to gain Ward new fans".

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"Like Bella Hardy [Ward's] writing continues to expand and challenge at a rapid pace ,,, Her singing (...) has lept from adequate to striking and, with Su Hanna calling the shots in the control room, this is an album that carries a real sense of drama and majesty ... Hanna has a field day conjuring weirdly disquieting atmospherics, while the band (...) plays a prominent role in establishing the momentous soundscapes ... It's not entirely self-written. Indeed, the most illuminating of many ambitious arrangements is the meandering electric guitar and fierce percussion underpinning the well-thombed Child ballad Lord Randall ... There are, perhaps, parallels with the last Unthanks album Mount The Air in the way it painstakingly builds tension and mystery without any obvious crowd-pleasing gambits or heed of what will play well in radio programmers' offices. As such, it creates its own rarefied niche".