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- Summary: The third full-length release for singer-songwriter Sam Lee features Cocteau Twins' Elizabeth Fraser and was produced by Bernard Butler.
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- Record Label: Cooking Vinyl
- Genre(s): Folk
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Jan 31, 2020“Wow” seems an appropriate response to this sublime album. ... Sam Lee’s Old Wow is a spine-tingling collection of traditional songs, artfully reinterpreted for contemporary ears and concerns. It is folk music that demands to be heard in the 21st century.
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Jan 31, 2020Butler has produced Old Wow like a soul record, full of space and warmth.
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MojoJan 31, 2020As sad ballad follows sad ballads towards the close, Old Wow is not as well-paces. Nonetheless it's full of resonant music. [Feb 2020, p.94]
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Feb 3, 2020Once again the songs are all traditional, while Lee has skilfully intercut some and “rewilded” them with the odd flourish – the “Old Wow” of the title is his name for an awestruck sense of nature.
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UncutJan 31, 2020Britfolk's most adventurous neo-traditionalist takes the surprise quotient to new heights on this conceptual set. [Feb 2020, p.30]
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