Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo – UK Tour October / November 2013
ALBUM OUT NOW
‘The hills have yet to be emptied of gold if you know where to look’ – The Times
Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo releases her much-anticipated fourth studio album, Dear River on the 8th July 2013 on Linn Records.
Full of contrasting dynamics and a broad cavalcade of emotions, the exuberant track – a letter to the Blackwood River in Western Australia on the eve of her departure into the big, wide unknown – is the launch pad for the album’s fascinating exploration of self, place and people. “Dear River is a song about journey,” says Emily, “it is a longing for the unfamiliar, where the journey itself becomes a home. However, the more I travel and experience, the more the river calls me back and I start longing for what I knew: those first landscapes, those first loves’’
After self-financing her first three albums, Emily is now releasing her fourth album on one of the world’s leading ‘audiophile’ labels, Linn Records. Produced by Calum Malcolm (The Blue Nile) the Dear River album marks a significant sonic move forward from the previous three albums, highlighting Emily’s agile vocal blend of strength and fragility, while lyrically exploring the meaning of home and its related tangents of exile, displacement, and family.
UK based but hailing from Bridgetown, Western Australia, Emily Barker is a compelling singer-songwriter, who with her band The Red Clay Halo blends classical, rock, country and folk influences to stunning effect. Having released three critically acclaimed albums, played a string of sold-out UK dates, performed with Frank Turner at the London 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony and written and performed the Bafta and Ivor Novello award-winning themes to hit BBC dramas Wallander and The Shadow Line, the Dear River album is a major landmark that will surely take Emily to a whole new level.
Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo will embark on a full UK tour later this year, details below.
“Dear River” is available to download from iTunes here: http://smarturl.it/q60pxu
UK TOUR
http://www.musicglue.com/emilybarker/ (with ticket links)
Tue 30th July at London – Brill, Exmouth Market
Thu 10th Oct – The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen
Fri 11th Oct – The Arch Inn, Ullapool
Sat 12th Oct – Ironworks, Inverness
Sun 13th Oct – Oran Mor, Glasgow
Tue 15th Oct – Komedia, Brighton
Wed 16th Oct – Shepherds Bush Empire, London
Thu 17th Oct – Blackfriars Priory, Gloucester
Fri 18th Oct – The Globe, Cardiff
Sat 19th Oct – York, Low Mill
Sun 20th Oct – The Musician, Leicester
Mon 21st Oct – Artrix, Bromsgrove
Tue 22nd Oct – St John’s Church, Oxford
Wed 23rd Oct – The Apex, Bury St Edmunds
Fri 25th Oct – Open, Norwich
Sat 26th Oct – North Dorset Folk Festival
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Thu 7th Nov – St Philips Church, Salford
Fri 8th Nov – Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal
Sat 9th Nov – Cluny 2, Newcastle
Sun 10th Nov – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
Mon 11th Nov – Junction 2, Cambridge
Wed 13th Nov – Discovery Centre, Winchester
Thu 14th Nov – Phoenix, Exeter
Fri 15th Nov – Plaza Suite, Sevenoaks
Sat 16th Nov – St Mary-in-the-Castle, Hastings
Sun 17th Nov – Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth
Tue 19th Nov – Glee Club, Birmingham
Wed 20th Nov – Greystones, Sheffield
Thu 21st Nov – Floral Pavilion, New Brighton
Fri 22nd Nov – Folk House, Bristol
Daily Star – “capable of sensuous Joni Mitchell-style fragility” 7/10 (attached)
The Times – 4/5 (attached)
Mail On Sunday – “rousing folk rock… a handsome sound, warm and accessible” 3/5 (attached)
Evening Standard (lead review) – “Folk singer-songwriters are hardly an endangered species in 2013 but there should still be room for those as talented as Emily Barker” 4/5
Daily Mirror (Stand out album) – “Her evocations of the natural world and piquant emotional terrain are enlivened by a vocal with the clarity of Dolly Parton” 4/5
Guardian – “a classy, lush production” 3/5
The Sun – “Her fourth album… finds her going from strength to strength” 3.5/5
R2 ROCK ‘n’ REEL – “simply great songs” 4/5
The 405 – “a wonderful musical experience” 7/10
The Arts Desk – “Every so often, an album comes along that reminds you why you love the medium: not because it’s a simple collection of individual songs, no matter how good they are, but because it’s a carefully curated statement of artistic intent.” 4/5
What Hi Fi – “a controlled, beautifully spacious and dynamic recording” 5/5
Maverick Magazine – “Bloody Amazing… a classic album” 4.5/5
Hi Fi + – “her fourth album… finds her in sublime form” 8/10
Country Music People – “an impressive achievement” 4/5
Culture Fly – “a beautiful album” 4/5
Click Music – “A captivating album from a true talent” 3/5
Louder Than War – “There’s some truly astonishing records coming out of the folk scene at the moment… Dear River is at the very top of that pile.”
Uncut – 7/10