Karine Polwart: Traces – review

(Hegri)Here's further proof that Karine Polwart (above) is one of the finest singer-songwriters in Britain today. Over the last few years she has expanded her range, and her audience, through her involvement with the excellent (mostly) Scottish folk supergroup the Burns Unit and the Darwin Song Project, and now comes an ambitious and confident new solo set in which her songs range from the personal to the epic and atmospheric. Polwart has a cool, thoughtful and at times powerful voice, but it's ...

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