EMILY BARKER - NEW ALBUM DUE TO DROP MAY! ‘FRAGILE AS HUMANS’ CELEBRATES BANDCAMP FRIDAY!

If you haven’t registered that Emily has a new Album coming, it is due this May! 
So worth an extra plug as today features Bandcamp Friday!

Yay, a delight and actually force of nature her work is varied and always reflectively soulful and deep. I expect this will be no less as she brings us her thoughts on grief and loss, loneliness versus solitude. I number a few of her previous albums as favourites of her work and still favour 'Dear River' and the work she and her husband , the wonderful bass player and fellow musician, Lukas Drinkwater, did awaiting Covid quarantine to clear two weeks in a hotel where they worked together on an album they called Room 822 the more recent reflections upon the ‘Mumurations’ (A Dark Murmuration of Words) of poetry and song is still on the decks pretty much once a week at least but I think I have pretty much everything since first hearing her ethereal voice haunting me in the Theme to detective TV show Wallander all this those years again now. I can always find something to fascinate and echo my moods in her complete works. I am also excited to report she is coming to a local Record Store and will let you now in the late Spring how that turns out. Can’t wait!

EMILY SAYS:

Hello How are you? Just a quick note from me ahead of the weekend - it would be amiss if I went without mentioning Bandcamp Friday this month, which falls today! With my new album Fragile as Humans coming this May, today is one of just a couple prior to that where you can pre-order your copy via Bandcamp and the platform waives their charges. As an independent artist, every order you make on days like these makes a difference. So if you haven't taken the plunge yet, I'm grateful to you for reading and considering doing so!

FRAGILE AS HUMANS

I'm excited for you to hear this record that I've been nursing since 2022, before I moved back to Australia. There's lots more to say about it, but we can get into that in the coming weeks. For now, thank you for supporting me and for listening. Best wishes, Emily

As the notes on Bandcamp say On her new album, Fragile as Humans—written and recorded as her time living in the UK was coming to a close—Emily Barker turns her lyrical gaze inwards. The expansive themes of her previous album A Dark Murmuration of Words are replaced by an empathetic concern for matters more personal, familial, closer to home. The ten songs take us on a deep dive into the human condition, an unflinching self-examination of grief, pain, loneliness and loss, at the same time sparkling with hope and optimism.  Luke Potashnick's intricate production puts Emily's expressive voice at the very forefront, exposing its full emotional range—vulnerable, yet assured—backed by a cinematic sonic palette provided by Richard Causon on keys, Tim Harries on bass and Tom Visser on drums, with Luke himself contributing additional guitars, effects and studio wizardry.  As Emily writes in the album's pivotal title track, we live lives of complexity, grappling with loneliness and disconnection, searching for compassion, connection and community – we are all “fragile as humans and made of who we love”.

Dear River  [8th July, 2013]

Emily Barker & Lukas Drinkwater - Push the Sky Away (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds cover) Official video from Room 822 [- how is this quality recording in a hotel room even possible - Lukas is a magician! As it is he who engineered it!]

Feathered Thing - from the forthcoming album