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- Summary: The fifth full-length release for Irish folk singer-songwriter Lisa O'Neill was inspired in part by Patrick Kavanagh's The Great Hunger.
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- Record Label: Rough Trade
- Genre(s): Folk, Progressive Folk, Traditional Folk, Irish Folk
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Feb 10, 2023This record’s peers might be Astral Weeks, Starsailor, Music For A New Society, New Skin For The Old Ceremony and, in particular, Mary Margaret O’Hara’s Miss America. She’s not out of place among these ghosts either. If you’ve ever been spellbound by those songs of love, loss, wonder and despair, you need to listen to Lisa O’Neill. [Mar 2023, p.24]
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Feb 10, 2023Her lilting, rough-hewn cadence carries with it the weight, strength, and spry humor of her homeland, and her storytelling rings true and grounded, even at its most mystic and confounding.
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MojoFeb 10, 2023O'Neill has locked into humanity's flawed relationship with nature. But there's celebration too. [Mar 2023, p.92]
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Feb 13, 2023Here, she unfurls a sequence of eight originals bound together by a cascade of imagery drawn largely from nature, in particular the bird kingdom, “a lawless league of lonesome beauty” the singer yearns to join.
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Feb 10, 2023“Birdy From Another Realm”, feel like the well-trodden ground in the artist’s oeuvre. This can be a little jarring when set against the more creatively and emotionally ambitious tunes and, while perfectly pleasant, could stand in the way of the project as a cohesive experience. All of This Is Chance is nonetheless a beautiful and bold album that showcases an artist unafraid to develop her sound further, revealing more of herself in the process.
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