Rachel Newton: Here’s My Heart Come Take It review – brooding new settings for folk traditionals

(Shadowside)Rachel Newton specialises in creating atmospheric new settings for songs that are for the most part sad, spooky or unsettling. Her last solo album, Changeling, was a concept work based around folk tales, but this set is held together by mood rather than narrative. There are traditional American songs from the Ozark mountains, including the brooding title track and the intriguing Poor Lost Baby, along with Scottish Gaelic songs and a suitably haunting treatment of The Bloody Gardener,...

Read full article Share article