''Pulse'' is the fifth album from the Shetland-born singer-songwriter and musician

Astrid Williamson Astrid Williamson (born 28 November 1968) is a Scottish musician, composer, and songwriter. Life and music career Growing up in Shetland, she enjoyed playing the piano from an early age and The Shetland Folk Festival provided early experience ...

. The album was produced by

Leo Abrahams Leo Matthew Abrahams (born 1977 in Camden, London) is an English musician, composer and producer. He has collaborated with a multitude of professional musicians, including Brian Eno, Katie Melua, Imogen Heap, Jarvis Cocker, Carl Barât, Regina ...

(a guitarist famed for his work with

Brian Eno Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno (; born Brian Peter George Eno, 15 May 1948) is a British musician, composer, record producer and visual artist best known for his contributions to ambient music and work in rock, pop an ...

Reception

''Pulse'' was judged by ''MusicOMH'' to be a "bold change in direction....pulled off extremely competently". ''The Scotsman'' newspaper suggested the "lilting conversational beauty of

he track He or HE may refer to: Language * He (pronoun), an English pronoun * He (kana), the romanization of the Japanese kana へ * He (letter), the fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets * He (Cyrillic), a letter of the Cyrillic script called ''He'' in ...

"Paperbacks" - up there with

Joni Mitchell Roberta Joan "Joni" Mitchell ( Anderson; born November 7, 1943) is a Canadian-American musician, producer, and painter. Among the most influential singer-songwriters to emerge from the 1960s folk music circuit, Mitchell became known for her sta ...

's best moments". ''Popmatters'' viewed it as "less a game-changer than a paradigm shift", while ''UNCUT'' magazine concluded it is "as beautiful as it is unsettling".

Track listing

# Dance # Pour # Underwater # Cherry # Miracle # Connected # Pulse # Husk # Reservation # Paperbacks

Personnel and recording details

- vocals / guitar / harp / piano and handclaps *

- bass / drums / electric guitar / bells / keyboards and tambourine * Programming, mixing and production by

* Mastered by

Mandy Parnell Mandy Parnell is a British audio mastering engineer, founder and senior mastering engineer at Black Saloon Studios in London, England. Parnell has worked on projects with a wide variety of artists including Aphex Twin, The XX, Feist (singer), Feis ...

* Photography by Rankin * Artwork by Joby Barnard * All songs composed by

References

{{Authority control 2011 albums One Little Independent Records albums Astrid Williamson albums