Jackie Oates: Saturnine – review

(ECC/Proper) When Jackie Oates released her Hyperboreans album two years ago, I suggested she was becoming a new folk celebrity. She now works with Cecil Sharp Project, has joined Imagined Village and, after helping record a series of folk/bird song mood albums for Lush, she even has a cosmetics range named after her. Now comes her third solo set, which demonstrates her development as a singer and a fine instrumentalist, playing violin and viola, but also her limitations. Many songs are from Dev...

Read full article Share article