Single Flame

Single Flame
Studio album by Lucy Ward
Released 19 August 2013[1]
Genre Folk music; Singer-songwriter
Lucy Ward chronology
Adelphi Has to Fly (2011) Single Flame (2013) I Dreamt I Was a Bird (2015)
Singles from Single Flame
  1. "For the Dead Men"
    Released: 29 January 2012[2]
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
The Guardian[3]

Single Flame, the second album of British singer-songwriter Lucy Ward, was released in the United Kingdom by Navigator Records on 19 August 2013.[1] It was critically acclaimed and received a four-starred review in The Guardian.[3]

Songs

The album includes "For the Dead Men", a self-penned protest song, which was released as a single in January 2012 coupled with a remixed version of "Maids When You’re Young".

Reception

In a four-starred review for The Guardian, Robin Denselow said that Lucy Ward "proves to be an even more mature and thoughtful singer-songwriter than she was on Adelphi Has to Fly" and described her follow-up album as "impressive and original" and "a brooding, often angry set that deals with everything from politics to love, death and personal tragedy, with a couple of powerful traditional songs added in".[3]

Hazel Davis, for americanaUK, described it as a much angrier album than her debut release but "a genuinely eclectic sounding collection" with "songs that are Thea Gilmore-good".[4]

Simon Holland, for Folk Radio UK, said that the album was "charged, emotive and utterly compelling".[5]

Track listing

  1. I Cannot Say I Will Not Speak (Lucy Ward) 4:04
  2. Honey (Stu Hanna/Lucy Ward) 3:41
  3. The Last Pirouette (Lucy Ward) 3:55
  4. Icarus (Lucy Ward) 5:14
  5. Velvet Sky (Stu Hanna/Lucy Ward) 4:13
  6. Rites of Man (Lucy Ward) 5:08
  7. The Consequence (Lucy Ward) 2:15
  8. Lord I Don't Want To Die In the Storm (Stu Hanna/Lucy Ward) 4:09
  9. For the Dead Men (Lucy Ward) 4:25
  10. Marching Through the Green Grass (Traditional) 2:50
  11. Ink (Lucy Ward) 4:11
  12. Shellback (Lucy Ward) 4:38

Total album length = 48:43

Production

Single Flame was produced by Stu Hanna from Megson, who also performs on the album, with his wife Debbie Hanna providing backing vocals.

Notes and references

  1. 1 2 Reinhard Zierke (18 July 2013). "Single Flame". Mainly Norfolk: English Folk and Other Good Music. Retrieved 27 August 2013.
  2. Reinhard Zierke (18 July 2013). "Adelphi Has to Fly". Mainly Norfolk: English Folk and Other Good Music. Retrieved 9 August 2013.
  3. 1 2 3 Robin Denselow (15 August 2013). "Lucy Ward: Single Flame – review". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 August 2013.
  4. Hazel Davis (29 August 2013). "Lucy Ward "Single Flame"". CD Reviews. americanaUK. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
  5. Simon Holland (5 August 2013). "Lucy Ward – Single Flame". Album Reviews, Featured Albums. Folk Radio UK. Retrieved 20 April 2015.

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