The wild wild berry

"The 11 tracks on The Wild Wild Berry were all drawn from the archive at Cecil Sharp House, the home of the English Folk Dance and Song Society ... Austerity suits these songs. They're so strong that they don't need a lot of extras, just performers who know how they should be treated. Hladowski's delivery puts tune and story first, and confines her personal touch to the essential qualities of her voice".

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"In which Bradford's Stephanie Hladowski and Cambridge's C Joynes collaborate on what could be the best and certainly most reshing new recording of English traditional songs you'll hear this year ... Even Sam Lee's debut - with which it shares a version of "George Collins" - stands in its shade for directness and unpredictability, and I imagine that Shirley Collins' cup may run over if she gets to hear it, for this is the sound of people going right back to source traditional recordings, understanding them perfectly, and then delivering something personal and free of standard "folk revival" mannerism".