Cinder Well

Cinder Well’s “A Blooming Body” is the closest we’ve been to witnessing Amelia Baker’s unique vision in full — her first time handling the processes behind making an album, and the greater creative control shows. Her talents have never been in doubt, but here they are more evident and more varied than ever: raw, richly detailed, full of hidden musical depths.

Cinder Well’s “Beyond The Pale” is the second preview of “A Blooming Body”, due July 17th via Hen House Studios. Amelia Baker describes it as “a hangover, a break-up, a migraine, a confessional.” The video, directed by Chelsea “Cheech” Moosekian, came to Baker in a dream. Greg Cohen — bassist for Tom Waits and John Zorn — plays on the track, alongside Phillip Rogers and David Ralicke on clarinet.

Cinder Well returns with new album “A Blooming Body,” out July 17th via Hen House Studios. Lead single and video, “While the Womb Screams Silently” is out now — inspired by Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire — “about listening to your inner knowing, which often screams loudly but is ignored for the sake of conforming -constantly trying to break out of the restraints and projections of patriarchy…”

Watch the recent Tiny Desk Concert by Amelia Baker, aka Cinder Well – “This is folk music with a widescreen vision and a gothic flourish.” Read our interview and don’t miss her tour of Ireland this month.

Amelia Baker, aka Cinder Well (our current Artist of the Month), has shared a live video for Overgrown which features on her new album ‘Cadence’. The session was captured at last year’s Quiet Lights Festival in Cork, Ireland by the magic eye of Myles O’Reilly.

Amelia Baker, the singer, musician and writer behind Cinder Well, is disarmingly honest. But behind that honesty lies an intriguing depth and complexity. We chat with her about her new album ‘Cadence’; her Southern California roots and living in Ireland; and her influences and tastes, from Joni Mitchell to Lankum and Haruki Murakami.

Cinder Well’s ‘Cadence’ is something of a journey. Meandering, non-linear, but full of care and wisdom, it is an astonishingly powerful piece of work that seems to have been conceived in uncertainty but realised with the supreme assurance of one of the most consummate songwriters around.

“A Scorched Lament” is the new single from Cinder Well which features a brand-new and haunting music video shot by Irish videographer Ruth Clinton of the band Landless. It’s also our Song of the Day.

Cinder Well announces her forthcoming new album ‘Cadence’ which features a number of contributions, including strings from Cormac MacDiarmada of Lankum. Watch her video for the first single ‘Two Heads, Grey Mare’, also our Song of the Day.

Our EP of the Week is a joint collaboration between Cinder Well and Jim Ghedi who are also on tour together through March 2022. The songs are both haunting and emotionally stirring at the same time…”it’s as if the song chose them”.

Jim Ghedi announces a full-band tour for March and April 2022, during which he will be joined by Cinder Well. It’s a tour you don’t want to miss and it’s certainly not one you’ll forget.

Watch Cinder Well performing ‘From Behind the Curtain’ live at Abbeydale Picture House in Sheffield, a beautiful collaboration with filmmaker Jordan Carroll which captures the magic of place and song perfectly.