PROGRESSIVE FOLK

Paul Sexton travels to the Emerald Isle and beyond in search of prog gold.

County Cavan’s Lisa O’Neill has been plying her trade for many a moon, but her rising stock is taking her to ever bigger stages with the genuinely unique All Of This Is Chance (Rough Trade). Her singular voice and tone have a hypnotic, sometimes almost robotic quality, atmospherically pitched at the intersection between speaking and singing. These are stories of the land in the great Irish tradition, ruminating literally on the birds, bees and berries, but O’Neill’s extraordinary delivery and some beautiful instrumentation lend a daringly modern hue. The album has already topped the UK’s Americana chart, and the Mercury Prize will surely recognise its charms. Seven years after Belfast’s Mark McCambridge debuted as Arborist with Home Burial, and three since the equally admired follow-up A Northern View, he’s back…

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