Posts Tagged ‘Melancholy’
Album Review: Emily Jane White – Ode to Sentience
The Californian has an album out now; Ode to Sentience - it features cathartic, winding notes, strings and a voice as pure as the morning sunshine.
Written by Helen Martin
Mary Katrantzou A/W 2011. Photography by Amelia Gregory
Illustration by Laura Godfrey, ed LG Illustration
I know that folk music isn’t all organic, this web whole foods, and love - or indeed deep lust - buried in a haystack. Happy all day, before campfires and passions at night. No, folk musicians don’t spend their days wearing slightly grubby lumberjacks or floaty, ethereal frocks. See evidence: Grizzly Bear aren’t happy all the time and Bon Iver is a delightfully melancholy chap. And then just listen to Nick Drake and young Laura Marling. To be honest I’m not really sure where I got the skippy, clappy, dancing in the hazy afternoon sunshine vision from. Perhaps it’s because folk artists tend to sing about the earth, nature and love in one breath. There is no chat of ‘honeys’ or ‘bling’. Gah, And of course, folkers may be… read more