Brigid Mae Power - Releases new album 'Dream from the deep Well'

Dreamy Folk Pop from Brigid Mae Power

'Dream from the deep Well' is the new album from Brigid Mae Power and it’s, well, really rather different. Recognised as a purveyor of dreamier Pop with Folky leanings, this new album is a departure; a unique marriage of traditional stylings and very modern melodies; a breath-taking soundtrack which underpins her gorgeous vocal. Filled with personal tales of offspring and grandparents, the lovelorn and the lost, it’s the essence of re-imagined Folk music, from the traditional intro and outro that act as bookends; ‘I know who is Sick’ previously made popular by The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem which sounds like it’s counted in by a telephone busy tone, and the romantic ‘Down by the Glenside’ often sung by The Dubliners. It’s Folk music, but not as we know it.

In these ever confusing and often annoying times, Brigid brings us modern Folk for modern Folk, with her evocative vocal, doubling back on itself with strings, steel guitar, horns and mellotron adding to it's baroque loveliness. It’s waving back at her rootsy past, daubing new colours on a much loved canvas. ‘Dream from the deep Well’ is a new visionary beginning from a gifted songwriter. Including stand out tracks ‘Counting Down’ with its mellow beat and charmingly robust story line, and the dreamy balm of ‘The Waterford Song’, with its ethereal lilt and floating melody.

Between them, ‘Maybe it’s just Lightning’ strolls in with lyrics awash with a Psychedelic hue soaking up the atmosphere. It’s a mood that gravitates to the deeply moving title track which sounds like Joni at her most playful in a dark Julia Holter kind of way. Elsewhere, there’s the lovelorn longing of her version of Tim Buckley’s ‘I must have been Blind’ from his ‘Blue Afternoon’ album and there’s a moving tribute to the late Ashling Murphy, a twenty three year old Irish primary school teacher and traditional Irish musician who was attacked and killed while jogging along the Grand Canal just outside Tullamore, County Offaly. It's a harrowing story, delivered with overwhelming compassion. In the best tradition of old school Folk music, it opens up a pressing issue to a wider audience.  It's an album that’s politically primed and socially aware; a broadside for us all, this is Brigid Mae Power’s most complete album yet.

'Dream from the deep Well' tracklisting Below: 
01 I know who is Sick
02 Counting Down
03 Maybe it’s just the Lightning
04 I must have been Blind
05 The Waterford Song
06 Ashling
07 I’ll wait outside for You
08 Dream from the deep Well
09 I Don’t know your Story
10 Some life you’ve Known
11 Down by the Glenside

Check Out! the Video for 'Counting Down' Below...