Sweet England

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Continuing her mission to preserve and revitalize ancient British folkways, the vocalist delivers another stark, profoundly beautiful collection of rural ballads. Recorded with extreme simplicity, the austere arrangements highlight the dark, often tragic historical narratives inherent in songs of unrequited love and violent rural folklore. Her pure, remarkably emotionless delivery paradoxically intensifies the haunting, deeply melancholic atmosphere of the traditional material.