Full Review Track Listings

01.	Dear River	play pause stop Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
02.	Tuesday
03.	Letters
04.	The Leaving	play pause stop Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
05.	Everywhen
06.	Sleeping Horses
07.	Ghost Narrative
08.	The Cormorant & the Heron
09.	A Spadeful of Ground
10.	In The Winter I Returned
11.	The Blackwood

Emily Barker is a singer songwriter of rare depth and individuality. Her new album, Dear River, is a compelling song cycle that marks an unmistakable watershed in her rapidly burgeoning career. It is released on 8 July 2013 and available to pre order now.

Full of contrasting dynamics and a broad cavalcade of emotions Dear River is a fascinating exploration of self, place and people which sees Emily blend her own story into the wider joys and sorrows gleaned from her rigorous researches into others' experiences of travel and emigration.

With Linn and Blue Nile producer Calum Malcolm at the helm, the result is a beautiful, sensitive, provocative and at times surprising album, all the more potent for the immaculate sound quality, gleaned from state-of-the art studios and equipment.

Hailing from Bridgetown, Western Australia, Emily Barker has proven herself to be a compelling songwriter with a gift for weaving melody and words. She became known to a whole new audience when two of her songs, Nostalgia and Pause, featured as the theme music for the hit BBC TV shows Wallander and The Shadow Linerespectively.

Emily’s talent is perfectly complemented by the magnificent arrangements of her band The Red Clay Halo, whose rootsy ensemble playing underpins Barker’s agile vocal blend of strength and fragility. The Red Clay Halo band consists of Gill Sandell (accordion, harmonium, piano), Jo Silverston (cello) and Anna Jenkins (violin, viola).

Reviews:

‘…it's certain that Dear River is going to be something very special.'forfolkssake.com

‘New classics destined to be revered in years to come.’Folk Radio UK

‘...sharply observed, original songs.’ Uncut

Brought up in Australia but now living in the UK, Emily Barker has a gift for great melodies and Americana-influenced songs, ranging from the chugging country-rock of the title track to the melodic ballad Sleeping Horses or the harmonica-driven Ghost Narrative, with its echoes of Neil Young. Her latest album is released by a label that prides itself on audio quality, and her producer is Calum Malcolm from Blue Nile. No surprise, then, that this should be a classy, lush production, helped by some fine accordion and fiddle work from her band. Robin Denselow - The Guardian