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Katherine Priddy: The Pendulum Swing review – a rich, poised second album

The Birmingham folk artist’s exceptional voice shines through on a confident, expansive second album themed around the pull and push of home

Her voice is remarkable, the delivery of her songs more poised and their accompaniments richer – a blend of guitars (both picked and jangling), cello, violin, brass and synth overseen by producer Simon Weaver. Instead, The Pendulum Swing is a more consistent and domestic creation, its title referencing the urge to leave and change, and the opposing pull to return to the familiar. As much applies to tracks such as First House on the Left, where Priddy looks back at a “boat made of old bricks and mortar”, and family tributes Father of Two and Walnut Shell.

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