Name: Through the Clouds
Brand: Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

rtradst794

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2016-07-22

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

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UPC / Barcode

0883870079419

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1 / 10" / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker

Genre GB

Folk

Label GB

Rough Trade

British duo Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker have risen to star status lately on the English acoustic scene, earning last year's Best Duo award from the BBC Folk Awards and across-the- board praise for two self-released albums, most recently 'Nothing Can Bring Back The Hour', with its lush single 'Silverline'. Clarke and Walker release a new EP, 'Through The Clouds,' via Rough Trade, featuring a handful of the best tracks from their small catalogue, rearranged anew. 'Through The Clouds' is meant as an introduction to the duo; in addition to 'Silverline' it features a new, stripped-down version of 'Done' (ballads on opposite sides of love and loneliness), an alternate mix of the spooky Shirley Collins cover 'Hares On The Mountain' and the original album version of 'The Tangled Tree', a brilliant showcase of Clarke's vocal range and expression. While The Guardian anointed them "chamber folk" (they certainly cut their teeth in that thriving part of the UK music scene), Clarke is an unusually compelling singer, sharing more in common with Sandy Denny, Gillian Welch, or even Nina Nastasia and Laura Marling, than your usual staid folk artist. Walker is a prodigiously talented guitarist and arranger and the two of them are engaging and often funny in a live setting where, in addition to their own songs, they choose covers brilliantly, from Denny, to Jackson C Frank, to Nina Simone, to death-obsessed traditional ballads. Clarke and Walker will be recording their Rough Trade debut album for an Autumn 2016 release, with an eye toward bringing bigger, more modern arrangements and production to their beautifully-wrought songs and Clarke's tremendous voice.

Through the Clouds

Music GB