Folkesange
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Reviews (3)
The observer
d. 4. Aug. 2019
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Neil Spencer
d. 4. Aug. 2019
"The C90 cassette unspooling on the sleeve makes an apt motif for an album that is both a tribute to Scottish pop and a personal testimony from Caledonia's reigning folk queen. Not that there's much folk involved; most of the songs Karine Polwart interprets here are from the mainstream, drawn from a live show in turn inspired by an Edinburgh exhibition ...".
Louder than war
d. 22. July 2019
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Mike Ainscoe
d. 22. July 2019
"How do you follow up Mojo's Folk Album Of The Year? Even we were very taken with 2018's "sublime" Laws Of Motion - reviewed here. It's a common occurrence in the folk genre to see artists regularly interpret traditional song so here's a variation on the norm with Karine doing what most would call a covers album. One that spans fifty years of Scottish pop ... It's a well thought out concept that could have resulted in a routine collection, but executed consummately".
Mojo
2019 September
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John Aizlewood
2019 September
"These 11 songs encompass Scottish writers from Ivor Cutler to Biffy Clyro, via the more predictable Waterboys and Deacon Blue. So far, so under-whelming, but there's coherence and magic here. Polwart gives Chvrches' "The Mother We Share" a finger-clicking, synth-free makeover; she delivers "CHance", Big Country's anthem for the broken, with heart-stopping tenderness and she coats John Martyn's "Don't Want To Know"with a new layer of menace ... If there must be covers albums, they might as well be as beguiling as this".