Brigid Mae Power (album)

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Brigid Mae Power
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Studio album by
Released10 June 2016 (2016-06-10)
StudioThe Sparkle, Woods, Oregon, United States
Genre Irish folk music
LanguageEnglish
Label Tompkins Square
Brigid Mae Power chronology
I Told You the Truth
(2014)
Brigid Mae Power
(2016)
The Ones You Keep Close
(2017)

Brigid Mae Power (album) is a 2016 studio album by Irish folk musician Brigid Mae Power. It has received positive reviews from critics.

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic?7.410 (5 reviews) [1]
Metacritic 85100 (5 reviews) [2]
Review scores
SourceRating
The Irish Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]
The Observer Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Pitchfork Media 7.510 [5]

Editors at AnyDecentMusic? rated this album a 7.4 out of 10, based on five reviews. [1] Brigid Mae Power received positive reviews from critics noted at review aggregator Metacritic. It has a weighted average score of 85 out of 100, based on five reviews. [2]

Writing for The Irish Times , Joe Breen rated this album 4 out of 5 stars, writing that "working with Oregon-based performer Peter Broderick has liberated her, she said, and this sparse, spectral collection is the evidence". [3] Kitty Empire also gave a 4-star review for The Observer , writing that this album is "so full of feeling" and notes the powerful emotions in Power's lyrics. [4] Pitchfork Media's Laura Snapes called this album "a liminal space made up of droning guitars, metallic piano reverberations, and lyrics that trace some barely escaped threat" with "clear seriousness" and a "sense of newfound freedom". [5]

Track listing

All songs written by Brigid Mae Power.

  1. "It’s Clearing Now" – 7:40
  2. "Sometimes" – 5:07
  3. "Let Me Hold You Through This" – 3:31
  4. "Is It My Low or Yours" – 3:45
  5. "Lookin' at You in a Photo" – 4:31
  6. "I Left Myself for a While" – 5:10
  7. "Watching the Horses" – 5:06
  8. "How You Feel" – 4:27

Personnel

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References

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  2. 1 2 "Brigid Mae Power by Brigid Mae Power Reviews and Tracks". Metacritic . Fandom, Inc. n.d. Retrieved 25 June 2023.
  3. 1 2 Breen, Joe (30 June 2016). "Brigid Mae Power album review: a powerful and almost hypnotic experience". Music. The Irish Times . ISSN   0791-5144 . Retrieved 25 June 2023.
  4. 1 2 Empire, Kitty (26 June 2016). "Brigid Mae Power: Brigid Mae Power review – so full of feeling". Music. The Observer . Guardian Media Group. ISSN   0029-7712. OCLC   50230244 . Retrieved 25 June 2023.
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