Till April is dead : a garland of May songs

"Lisa Knapp completes a trio of extraordinary albums with a celebration of May Day, its songs, dances, fertility rites and wyrdlore. The songs are traditional, but dressed in the artful arrangements of Knapp and partner/producer Gerry Diver. Acoustica, electronica, birdsong and speech interweave among whirring clocks and chimes, dropping us through time".

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"Knapp and [musical collaborator/producer/husband Gerry] Diver (...) artfully create arrangements filled with subtly shifting waves of overlapping instruments (viola, hammered dulcimer, and piano), spoken word, birds and bees, percussive cuckoo clocks and chimes (inevitably evocative of Pink Floyd!) and programming. "Lark In The Morning" is effectively sung over distant traffic and sampled street sounds, whilst "Lily White Hand" (...) is a sparse and gentle waltz-time thing of beauty. The closing "Padstow May Song" joyously brings everything together with its anomalous (but textually apposite) interjection of "The workers! United! Will never be defeated!". Lisa Knapp's never been short of ideas, but with "Till April Is Dead" she's revealed her true identity as a tradition-immersed yet utterly contemporary and fearlessly original talent as never before".