The capitalist blues
Leyla McCalla
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The guardian
d. 15. aug. 2013
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Robin Denselow
d. 15. aug. 2013
"This followup is a brooding, often angry set that deals with everything from politics to love, death and personal tragedy, with a couple of powerful traditional songs added in ... She sets the mood with I Cannot Say I Will Not Speak, which tackles the failure of 1960s idealism, and returns to political issues with For the Dead Men. The sense of impending disaster is heightened by her own Icarus and the menacing treatment of the traditional Lord I Don't Want to Die in the Storm. Impressive and original".
Gaffa [online]
d. 29. aug. 2013
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Espen Strunk
d. 29. aug. 2013
"Endnu et absolut udmærket (samtids-)folk-album fra nicheselskabet Navigator. Det er de færreste af sangene, som når op på siden af den stormfulde åbner, men også vemodigt-dramatiske The Last Piroutte og rugende Lord I Don't Want to Die in the Storm er fine indslag på et album, som herfra skal have anbefalinger omtrent lige så varme som Wards besnærende vokal".
fRoots
2013 Aug/Sept
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Colin Irwin
2013 Aug/Sept
"A deeper, much darker side to her [is] evident (...) and explodes with such extraordinarily powerful resonance on this album, she's barely recognisable as the singer who gave us Adelphi Has To Fly. In two years she's blossomed into a challenging songwriter and a richly involving singer with mature and accomplished arrangements sweltering in strings and Stu Hanna's distinctively bold production technique. Serious notice of intent is announced at the outset by a single drum beat before - sounding like a brooding cross between June Tabor and Nico - she delivers her opening lines "We sung the songs of Safka/Candles in the rain" and you're instantly intrigued. What the hell does a 23-year-old know about Melanie Safka anyway? It's a song of one generation's failed dreams - and another generation's prevailing hopes ... The frothy folk funster has gone with the blue hair. Lucy Ward has grown up...".