Fay Hield: Looking Glass | CD review

(Topic)Topic Records is one of the great English independent labels, yet it has signed no new artists for a decade. Now, at last, the label has had a change of heart, releasing this solo album by Fay Hield, the partner of folk star Jon Boden and best known for her role with the four-piece a cappella group the Witches of Elswick. All of which raises a lot of expectations, but this is a good, rather than exceptional, set. Hield is a fine technical singer, though the best songs here are those featu...

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