Hark The Voice That Sings For All is a terrific album. It’s Alison O’Donnell’s exhortation to listen. She is the archetypal dramatic storyteller in song, who can lay claim to being truly the voice that sings for all.
Firefay and Alison O’Donnell have reunited once again for a follow-up to their incredible 2014 album ‘Anointed Queen’. Listen to ‘Coming to London of Wily Will’, a gorgeous slice of psych folk.
With help from friends Kevin Scott, Dave Colohan, Graeme Lockett, James Connor, and Ronnie Maxwell, Alison has created something remarkably fresh. Which is to be expected from someone who has always responded to her own muse.
This week’s show has a strong leftfield and alternative feel to it. Some of the tracks are from albums released on small labels that we love: including Okraina Records, Folklore Tapes, Reverb Worship, Burst & Bloom, Cardinal Fuzz, North Western Recordings and Mega Dodo.
From the opening track The Owl Service offer a triumph of execution against expectation if ever there was one, and a challenge that sets the bar for the remainder of the disc. Invigorating, bold, uncompromising and honest! If this is their final release then it’s a fitting one.
The latest offering from United Bible Studies comes via ‘A Year in the Country’. It’s an album that’s inseparable from its landscapes, full of natural grandeur and musical inventiveness.
Annointed Queen is the result of a collaboration between ethereal London-based baroque folk quartet Firefay and 70s survivor Alison O’Donnell – a match made in psych-folk heaven.
