Leah Senior – “Mothersong”

Good news out of the South Hemi today as longtime favorite Leah Senior preps a new album and sets it up with the wicker folk wonders of “Mothersong.” Senior’s works have always teetered between baroque impulses and austere atmospheres. With her band behind her, songs lounge in her loving ornamentation, but I’ve seen her captivate a room with just guitar and voice, bittersweet cocoons that cradle the listener in reverberating air. The new song leans towards the former, dressed up in the dalliances of the UK’s ‘60s/’70s folk bloom with a Bread and Puppet-esque video to match. Fiddles and flutes spar with her strums and soaring vocals. The song winds around Pentangle riffs and Fairport ruffles, with Senior trading harmonies with her sister Andi. The new record, Pt. Roadknight, is out June 19th from SPINSTER and Third Eye Stimuli.

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