No more the green hills

"Janice Burns and Jon Doran have achieved much to be proud of, including appearances at major festivals, including Edinburgh Tradfest, Sidmouth, and Cambridge, and winning a "Danny" at 2021's Celtic Connections. The release of an EP in 2020 raised high expectations for their debut album, and No More the Green Hills fulfils all of them and more. At the heart of their music lies a gentleness and a deceptive simplicity, generating songs with a sound that wraps around you like a warm blanket, though some have lyrics disturbing enough to disrupt that idyll ... They don't approach traditional songs as if they were precious museum pieces, but equally, their arrangements are as far removed from twenty-first-century folk-rock as you could imagine. First and foremost, these are songs with a story to tell, and the clarity of Janice and Jon's individual voices ensures those stories are heard. Add the harmonies achieved from the pairing of their voices, and the listener is transported to vocal heaven".

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