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HOLLY MACVE – ” Golden Eagle “

Posted: March 13, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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and We Don’t Know Where We’re Going. Holly Macve releases her much-anticipated debut album, Golden Eagle, on Bella Union. With its spellbinding country and western ballads and devastating emotional delivery, the album is one of the most remarkably assured debuts of this or any other year, especially given she’s though only 21 years old. Born in Galway in western Ireland, Macve and her sister were whisked away “in the night” by her mother from their errant father, to live with her grandparents in Yorkshire. Once in their own house, Holly quickly responded to music: “My Grandad was a classical composer, and my mum sang, and she said I was singing before I was talking,” she recalls. Her mother’s record collection – lots of old blues and Bob Dylan – shaped Holly’s impressionable mind, before she herself discovered the likes of Leonard Cohen, Johnny Cash and Gillian Welch. Hiding away in Yorkshire, “isolated, surrounded by countryside”, her imagination took flight.

All Of Its Glory evokes her great-grandad, serving in WWI, writing impassioned letters (which the family still own, bound in a book) to his wife at home. Other songs describe ‘blood red fields’ and ‘burning skies’, and ‘a man standing by the river bank / His eyes were blue and his hair was jet black….’ The bulk of Golden Eagle was recorded in Newcastle at the home studio of producer Paul Gregory (of Bella Union label-mates Lanterns On The Lake), with extra recording in Brighton and London with her first touring band and Macve performing on acoustic guitar and piano. Yet Golden Eagle remains beautifully spare and delicate, putting Holly’s goosebump-raising voice centre stage, beautifully controlled yet riven with feeling.

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HOLLY MACVE – ” Heartbreak Blues “

Posted: January 27, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Holly Macve was born in Ireland and raised in Yorkshire, but the sound of her music is rooted strongly in America. She credits her mother’s collection of old blues and Bob Dylan records as a crucial influence, and she’s adopted a singing style that bounces between a country-western twang and a high-and-lonesome yodel. Her debut album, “Golden Eagle”, comes out March 3rd via the wonderful quality label Bella Union . Here is a song taken from that album, “Heartbreak Blues.” If you’re into the same kinds of old records that Holly grew up on, or newer stuff like Angel Olsen and Margo Price, you should definitely give this a listen. Holly doesn’t reinvent the wheel, but she’s got a songwriting style that’s very accomplished for a young artist’s debut album (she’s 21). Listen to “Heartbreak Blues” . She played SXSW last year and she’ll play again this year. All Most other dates are in the UK and Ireland..

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HOLLY MACVE – ” Corner Of My Mind “

Posted: July 23, 2016 in MUSIC
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Brighton might not be the obvious place to discover a great new alt-country talent, but thankfully it was where Bella Union’s Simon Raymonde went searching. There at an open-mic night he stumbled across a 20 year old Irish-born, Yorkshire bred singer by the name of Holly Macve; Simon recalls how on opening her mouth Holly silenced a crowd of “beery boys.” The rest, as they may well soon say, is history.

Whilst no details have yet been shared of a full length album, Holly has been working with the likes of the Corals Bill Ryder Jones and Lanterns On the Lake’s talented guitarist Paul Gregory. This week, Holly has shared the video for her stunning new single, “Corner Of My Mind”. The track is a thing of haunting beauty; the gentle tick of an acoustic guitar, embellishments of piano and electric guitar, and slap bang in the foreground is Holly’s magical voice. Her tone reminds me somewhat of the songstress Marissa Nadler, her melodies Imogen Heap, her inflections could be from First Aid Kit; it’s a truly special instrument, and one it seems inevitable the world will be hearing a lot more of in the future. In regards to the footage, Holly states “We decided to not plan much before we starting filming, hoping to just stumble across the right imagery and atmosphere needed to accompany the dark nature of the song. All the shots were filmed in Holme Moss near my hometown in West Yorkshire which is where it was written.”

You can catch Holly Macve at a number of festivals