Single Flame
Single Flame | ||||||||||
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Studio album by Lucy Ward | ||||||||||
Released | 19 August 2013[1] | |||||||||
Genre | Folk music; Singer-songwriter | |||||||||
Lucy Ward chronology | ||||||||||
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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
- I Cannot Say I Will Not Speak (Lucy Ward) 4:04
- Honey (Stu Hanna/Lucy Ward) 3:41
- The Last Pirouette (Lucy Ward) 3:55
- Icarus (Lucy Ward) 5:14
- Velvet Sky (Stu Hanna/Lucy Ward) 4:13
- Rites of Man (Lucy Ward) 5:08
- The Consequence (Lucy Ward) 2:15
- Lord I Don't Want To Die In the Storm (Stu Hanna/Lucy Ward) 4:09
- For the Dead Men (Lucy Ward) 4:25
- Marching Through the Green Grass (Traditional) 2:50
- Ink (Lucy Ward) 4:11
- 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 2 Reinhard Zierke (18 July 2013). "Single Flame". Mainly Norfolk: English Folk and Other Good Music. Retrieved 27 August 2013.
- ↑ Reinhard Zierke (18 July 2013). "Adelphi Has to Fly". Mainly Norfolk: English Folk and Other Good Music. Retrieved 9 August 2013.
- 1 2 3 Robin Denselow (15 August 2013). "Lucy Ward: Single Flame – review". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 August 2013.
- ↑ Hazel Davis (29 August 2013). "Lucy Ward "Single Flame"". CD Reviews. americanaUK. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
- ↑ Simon Holland (5 August 2013). "Lucy Ward – Single Flame". Album Reviews, Featured Albums. Folk Radio UK. Retrieved 20 April 2015.