Icarus Girl is the debut album by Siobhan McCrudden and is released world-wide on 7 December 2018 on hungersleep records.
From the debut album Icarus Girl by Siobhan McCrudden released in December 2018 on hungersleep records.
Noted as ‘One to watch’ by NewSoundWales, Siobhan McCrudden’s has been described as a singer who is gifted with one of the finest voices in contemporary UK folk music.
Raised in London to parents with Scottish and Irish roots, Cardiff-based singer songwriter McCrudden, crafts songs of intensity and sweetness, recounting personal stories whilst reflecting a vivid fascination with dark folk tales and superstitions.
Siobhan’s early performances found her on the coffee house circuit of New York. From these beginnings she went on to play larger gigs both in America and at home, performing at festivals and folk clubs.
‘Icarus Girl’ is carefully arranged and produced by acclaimed art-rock musician GRICE who has infused the songs with his subtle yet distinctive instrumentation. The result is something beautifully incandescent and timeless.
'Siobhan McCrudden really does have a voice of great intensity and beauty' NewSoundWales
‘music from the morning mist at the edge of a wood’ From the Margins
‘Absolutely beautiful ... just stunning, the voice is something else’ Adam Walton, BBC Radio Wales
lyrics
Oh little red
Here is the well that they dug you,
There ‘neath the salt and the snow.
Pushing you in was the easy part love,
Pulling you out,
I don’t know.
All of the lies that they told you,
Are just like the ice on a stream;
Under the weight,
Of the words they won’t state;
All of the things that they mean.
There we were talking to strangers,
Wearing the cape that I made.
Red is the colour of danger,
And I wonder now,
Why you stayed.
Cold as your breath on that morning,
As it hung in a cloud on the air.
Nothing is said,
Vaporous still,
I hear it everywhere.
So many times you have heard the voice.
So many times you ignored.
And now she comes,
To bite at your heels,
How can you say you were not warned?
Have you been talking to strangers?
Here, in the bed that I made?
Oh, red is the colour of danger.
And I wonder now
How
Far
You strayed.
I will be talking to strangers,
For all of the days that remain.
You are the colour of danger,
And you bloom in my heart,
Just to stain.
Run away.
credits
from Icarus Girl,
released December 7, 2018
Music & Lyrics by Siobhan McCrudden
Siobhan McCrudden: vocals, acoustic guitar
Grice Peters: keys, glass harmonium, string arrangements, treatments
Al Swainger: bass
Steve Bingham: violin
Produced by GRICE
Mixed by Duncan Chave & GRICE
Engineered by Duncan Chave & GRICE
Mastered by Andy Miles at Stardelta Audio Mastering
Recorded at Sound Gallery Studios, UK. www.sound-gallery.net
Cover Art & design: Edo Velthuis
The copyright in these sound recordings is owned by Siobhan McCrudden under exclusive licence to hungersleep productions Ltd - www.hungersleepproductions.com
All rights of the owner of the recorded work reserved.
Described as “a singer who is gifted with one of the finest voices in contemporary UK folk music”, Cardiff-based Siobhan
crafts songs of intensity and sweetness, recounting personal stories whilst reflecting a vivid fascination with dark folk tales and superstitions.
Absolutely beautiful, just stunning, the voice is something else’ Adam Walton, BBC Radio Wales...more
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