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- Record Label: Basin Rock
- Release Date: Jan 10, 2025
- Summary: The collaboration between Bridget Hayden and The Apparitions features reinterpretations of eight traditional folk songs.
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- Record Label: Basin Rock
- Genre(s): Folk
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Feb 4, 2025In the past few years Hayden and McLoughlin have teamed up with Richard Chamberlain in Schisms. Their ultra-lo-fi fuzzball psychedelic improv can be exhilarating, but exists on a very different planet (or at least in a far muggier climate) than the exquisite acoustic snowglobe of Cold Blows The Rain. [Jan 2025, p.24]
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The WireFeb 4, 2025With nowhere to hide, her voice is revealed as an equally fine instrument, informed by previous interpreters such as Sandy Denny, Anne Briggs and Jacqui McShee, but with an earthier, softer edged quality. [Mar 2025, p.48]
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MojoFeb 4, 2025Ominous drones, clanking banjos, filthy weather: a winning combo. [Feb 2025, p.87]
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Feb 4, 2025The atmosphere on Cold Blows the Rain can feel samey in contrast, so it’s thrilling when it occasionally skips off its path.
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Record CollectorFeb 24, 2025With Hayden's measured voice resembling a sigh from the grave and her plucked banjo brittle, When I Was In My prime exemplifies the record's sustained evocations of melancholy poise and elemental emotions. [Mar 2025, p.103]