Single Flame

Single Flame
Studio album by Lucy Ward
Released 19 August 2013[1]
Genre Folk music; Singer-songwriter
Lucy Ward chronology

Adelphi Has to Fly (2011) Single Flame (2013)
Singles from Single Flame
  1. "For the Dead Men"
    Released: 29 January 2012[2]
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
The Guardian [3]

Single Flame, the second album of British singer-songwriter Lucy Ward, was released in the United Kingdom by Navigator Records on 19 August 2013.[1] It was critically acclaimed and received a four-starred review in The Guardian.[3]

Songs

The album includes "For the Dead Men", a self-penned protest song, which was released as a single in January 2012 coupled with a remixed version of "Maids When You’re Young".

Reception

In a four-starred review for The Guardian, Robin Denselow said that Lucy Ward "proves to be an even more mature and thoughtful singer-songwriter than she was on Adelphi Has to Fly" and described her follow-up album as "impressive and original" and "a brooding, often angry set that deals with everything from politics to love, death and personal tragedy, with a couple of powerful traditional songs added in".[3]

Hazel Davis, for americanaUK, described it as a much angrier album than her debut release but "a genuinely eclectic sounding collection" with "songs that are Thea Gilmore-good".[4]

Simon Holland, for Folk Radio UK, said that the album was "charged, emotive and utterly compelling".[5]

Track listing

  1. I Cannot Say I Will Not Speak (Lucy Ward) 4:04
  2. Honey (Stu Hanna/Lucy Ward) 3:41
  3. The Last Pirouette (Lucy Ward) 3:55
  4. Icarus (Lucy Ward) 5:14
  5. Velvet Sky (Stu Hanna/Lucy Ward) 4:13
  6. Rites of Man (Lucy Ward) 5:08
  7. The Consequence (Lucy Ward) 2:15
  8. Lord I Don't Want To Die In the Storm (Stu Hanna/Lucy Ward) 4:09
  9. For the Dead Men (Lucy Ward) 4:25
  10. Marching Through the Green Grass (Traditional) 2:50
  11. Ink (Lucy Ward) 4:11
  12. Shellback (Lucy Ward) 4:38

Total album length = 48:43

Production

Single Flame was produced by Stu Hanna from Megson, who also performs on the album, with his wife Debbie Hanna providing backing vocals.

Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Reinhard Zierke (18 July 2013). "Single Flame". Mainly Norfolk: English Folk and Other Good Music. Retrieved 27 August 2013.
  2. ↑ Reinhard Zierke (18 July 2013). "Adelphi Has to Fly". Mainly Norfolk: English Folk and Other Good Music. Retrieved 9 August 2013.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Robin Denselow (15 August 2013). "Lucy Ward: Single Flame – review". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 August 2013.
  4. ↑ Hazel Davis (29 August 2013). "Lucy Ward "Single Flame"". CD Reviews. americanaUK. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
  5. ↑ Simon Holland (5 August 2013). "Lucy Ward – Single Flame". Album Reviews, Featured Albums. Folk Radio UK. Retrieved 20 April 2015.

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