Hypoxia (Kathryn Williams album)

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Hypoxia
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Studio album by
Kathryn Williams
Released15 June 2015
Label One Little Indian
Producer Ed Harcourt
Kathryn Williams chronology
Crown Electric
(2013)		Hypoxia
(2015)
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Hypoxia is Kathryn Williams 12th album and was released by One Little Indian on 15 June 2015. The songs were initially conceived as a result of a 2013 writing commission from New Writing North in conjunction with the Durham Book Festival's 50th anniversary celebration of the publication of Sylvia Plath's 'The Bell Jar' novel. [1]

Contents

Kathryn performed five songs at the festival and completed writing the project whilst touring her 'Crown Electric' release. "So I was writing the songs in Travelodges and on the side of the A1 in between gigs. Those were some dark days with only the sound of the motorway and a Little Chef to drown my sorrows in," [2]

The Scottish Herald wrote the album was "a collection of rare eloquence and spectacular beauty" with Clash Magazine concluding "By inhabiting and responding to a genuinely significant work of literature, Williams has produced her own spellbinding work of art" [3]

Track listing

From AllMusic. [4]

Personnel

From Discogs. [5]

Recording details

All songs written by Kathryn Williams, except:

Cuckoo written by Ed Harcourt and Kathryn Williams;

Battleships written by Jon Throne, Kathryn Williams, Ben Trigg and David Page;

Part Of Us written by David Saw and Kathryn Williams

Engineered and produced by Ed Harcourt at Rooks Nest.

Mixed by David Isumi Lynch.

Mastered by Denis Blackman at Skye.

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References

  1. ↑ Rogers, Jude (2015-06-14). "Kathryn Williams: 'Sylvia was a big shadow over my writing'". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 2016-03-22.
  2. ↑ Sam Wonfor (2 July 2015). "Kathryn Williams' latest album Hypoxia was inspired by Sylvia Plath's novel, The Bell Jar". journallive.
  3. ↑ "Kathryn Williams - Hypoxia". Clash Magazine. Retrieved 2016-03-28.
  4. ↑ "Kathryn Williams | Hypoxia, AllMusic Review by Timothy Monger". AllMusic. Retrieved 2016-03-22.
  5. ↑ "Kathryn Williams - Hypoxia". Discogs. Retrieved 2016-03-22.
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