Hayden, Bridget -& The Apparitions-
Cold Blows The Rain
The reinterpreted traditional folk songs that make up 'Cold Blows The Rain' are shaped by the land and the weather. Wrapped in mist and drizzle, the crawling drone of low heavy clouds on flat-top moors. The sound of the dark Calder Valley floor and sun starved hills in West Yorkshire in the North of England. The experimental musician invites the ghosts in for the classic folk songs that make up her stunning new album. Having hired the town's Oddfellow's Hall to record these new songs in the late summer of 2022. The songs that make up 'Cold Blows The Rain' are not made for the sunlight. They come, instead, wrapped in mist and coated with drizzle, those elements shaping the album as much as the voice and the instruments held within, as real but ambiguous as the ghosts that linger in the shadows. The sound of the dark valley floor. Underpinned by waves of analogue reverb, and led by Bridget's stirring and weather-beaten voice, the songs on 'Cold Blows The Rain' drift and crawl like low heavy clouds on flat-top hills, shaped by the land. The backdrop is equally as arresting, all subtle gloom cast in shadow, a gentle but pronounced swirling of textures, crafted from harmonium and violin courtesy of The Apparitions (Sam McLoughlin and Dan Bridgewood-Hill). "The weather speaks the most eloquently about human loss," Bridget says, articulating such sentiments. "It's good to feel enveloped by something so much vaster than ourselves. The rain and the tears all become one." For fans of Karen Dalton, OXN, Shirley Collins and Lisa O'Neill.