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Four powerful voices weave tender yet disquieting harmonies on a second album that honours bold women

It also showcases four female singers (Méabh Meir, Lily Power, Ruth Clinton and Sinéad Lynch), whose voices seem to rise from the sacra of their spines, emerging from their bodies in heavenly flight or heavy drones. Another beautiful album by brilliant banjo player and instrument-maker Jacken Elswyth, At Fargrounds(Wrong Speed Records), builds vivid worlds of singing birds and rural landscapes from layered plucks, thrums and buzzes of sound. The Deep Dark Woods ’ Broadside Ballads Vol III(Victory Pool) dresses traditional songs in longing lashings of reverb and pedal steel, Ryan Boldt lending his Canadian lilt to tracks such as Brigg Fair and The Boatman.

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