The Quickening

This eighth album from the Liverpudlian folk-rock singer songwriter follows 2006's 'Leave To Remain' and her 2008 release with Neill MacColl, 'Two', and is her first for powerhouse indie One Little Indian. Recorded live at Bryn Derwen Studio in North Wales in just four days, with a self-imposed limit of three takes per song, and without her band members hearing the songs beforehand, it has an almost shocking immediacy and a "raw, sinister mood", and has already been hailed by critics as her best material to date.