''Brigid Mae Power (album)'' is a 2016
studio album
An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early ...
by
Irish folk music
Irish traditional music (also known as Irish trad, Irish folk music, and other variants) is a Music genre, genre of folk music that developed in Ireland.
In ''A History of Irish Music'' (1905), W. H. Grattan Flood wrote that, in Gaelic Irel ...
ian
Brigid Mae Power
Brigid Mae Power is an Irish singer, songwriter, and musician.
Early life
Power was born in London, England to Irish parents. Her family relocated to Ireland when she was eleven years old. She learned to play the button accordion before start ...
. It has received positive reviews from critics.
Reception
Editors at
AnyDecentMusic?
AnyDecentMusic? is a website that collates album reviews from magazines, websites, and newspapers. Primarily focused on popular music – covering rock, pop, electronic, dance, folk, country, roots, hip-hop, R&B, and rap – albums are adjudg ...
rated this album a 7.4 out of 10, based on five reviews.
''Brigid Mae Power'' received positive reviews from critics noted at review aggregator
Metacritic
Metacritic is a website that review aggregator, aggregates reviews of films, TV shows, music albums, video games and formerly, books. For each product, the scores from each review are averaged (a weighted arithmetic mean, weighted average). M ...
. It has a
weighted average
The weighted arithmetic mean is similar to an ordinary arithmetic mean (the most common type of average), except that instead of each of the data points contributing equally to the final average, some data points contribute more than others. The ...
score of 85 out of 100, based on five reviews.
Writing for ''
The Irish Times
''The Irish Times'' is an Irish daily broadsheet newspaper and online digital publication. It launched on 29 March 1859. The editor is Ruadhán Mac Cormaic. It is published every day except Sundays. ''The Irish Times'' is considered a newspaper ...
'', Joe Breen rated this album 4 out of 5 stars, writing that "working with Oregon-based performer Peter Broderick has liberated her, she said, and this sparse, spectral collection is the evidence".
Kitty Empire
Kitty Empire is the pen name of a British writer and music critic, currently writing for ''The Observer''.
Early life
Empire says that she was born in Montreal, Quebec in 1970 and brought up in Canada, Italy and Egypt before arriving in Britai ...
also gave a 4-star review for ''
The Observer
''The Observer'' is a British newspaper published on Sundays. It is a sister paper to ''The Guardian'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', whose parent company Guardian Media Group Limited acquired it in 1993. First published in 1791, it is the w ...
'', writing that this album is "so full of feeling" and notes the powerful emotions in Power's lyrics.
Pitchfork Media
''Pitchfork'' (formerly ''Pitchfork Media'') is an American online music publication (currently owned by Condé Nast) that was launched in 1995 by writer Ryan Schreiber as an independent music blog.
Schreiber started Pitchfork while working ...
's Laura Snapes called this album "a liminal space made up of droning guitars, metallic piano reverberations, and lyrics that trace some barely escaped threat" with "clear seriousness" and a "sense of newfound freedom".
Track listing
All songs written by
Brigid Mae Power
Brigid Mae Power is an Irish singer, songwriter, and musician.
Early life
Power was born in London, England to Irish parents. Her family relocated to Ireland when she was eleven years old. She learned to play the button accordion before start ...
.
#"It’s Clearing Now" – 7:40
#"Sometimes" – 5:07
#"Let Me Hold You Through This" – 3:31
#"Is It My Low or Yours" – 3:45
#"Lookin' at You in a Photo" – 4:31
#"I Left Myself for a While" – 5:10
#"Watching the Horses" – 5:06
#"How You Feel" – 4:27
Personnel
*
Brigid Mae Power
Brigid Mae Power is an Irish singer, songwriter, and musician.
Early life
Power was born in London, England to Irish parents. Her family relocated to Ireland when she was eleven years old. She learned to play the button accordion before start ...
– instrumentation, vocals, cover painting
*
Peter Broderick – instrumentation, recording,
mixing,
mastering
*Cory Gray – recording for piano and vocals on "Sometimes", "I Left Myself for a While", and "How You Feel"
See also
*
List of 2016 albums
The following is a list of albums, EPs, and mixtapes released in 2016. These albums are (1) original, i.e. excluding reissues, remasters, and compilations of previously released recordings, and (2) notable, defined as having received signific ...
References
External links
*
*
{{Authority control
2016 albums
Brigid Mae Power albums
Tompkins Square Records albums