Lullabies

"Oates sings with her customary intimacy and gorgeousness certainly abounds - the unaccompanied Wexford Lullaby, sung in three-part harmony with Bara Grimsdottir and Chris Foster, is wonderful.Elsewhere, the instrumental When I Was a Lady is beautifully arranged, and her interpretation of Bill Caddick's Waiting for the Lark is exceptional".

Læs anmeldelse

"A bit of a departure for La Oates, this - her fifth album - is exactly what it says on the tin, a collection of lullabies, sweetly sung, lightly arranged and perfectly designed to calm the baby in the house. Not the populist Hush-A-Bye Baby brand, mind - she has keenly researched her subject to unearth some rare and unusual examples from the traditional and other canons ... There's a Paul McCartney song, Junk ... a couple of slightly spooky-sounding Icelandic songs appropriately recorded in Reykjavik ... a Shakespeare song ... a rather forbidding hymn-like Incredible String Band song, Sleepers Awake, performed as an unaccompanied duet with Chris Sarjeant; A.A. Milne's Alexander Beetle and various other pieces that venture far beyond the Little Bo Beep school of mothering. It's very charming and occasionally - notably opening track Dream Angus and Bill Caddick's Waiting For The Lark, both characterised by Belinda O'Hooley's stark piano accompaniment - jaw-droppingly beautifulandinspired, especially when Borgar Magnason's string arrangement kicks into the end of Waiting For The Lark".