A woman can dig deeper, and not just after dreams, after all, in “The Waterford Song” Brigid Mae Power is playing on terrain that her family has been inhabiting for around a thousand (!) years. But the Irish woman is interested neither in mysticism nor in mere customs. Stronger than on her first two albums, Power sees her carefully modernized folk music as a social entity when she makes the small fights of the women next door big in “Maybe It’s Just Lightning” or reminds of an elementary school teacher who was killed while jogging in “Ashling”. .
The Irish woman is interested neither in mysticism nor in mere customs
In the two-part requiem “I Don’t Know Your Story” she is handed a piano, while “I’ll Wait Outside For You” wonderfully illuminates its theme with floating steel sounds. Her mastery as a performer throws power into a version of Tim Buckley’s “I Must Have Been Blind” that lets all the damn regrets shine in its very reclusiveness. In “Counting Down” Brigid Mae Power sometimes struggles with her profession. Good thing she couldn’t find anything better!
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