Letters I Haven't Written | ||||
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Released | 12 October 2018 (UK) | |||
Studio | Rockfield Studios, Monmouth | |||
Genre | Singer-songwriter | |||
Label | Monkeywood (MONKEYWOOD-03) | |||
Producer | Gwyneth Herbert | |||
Gwyneth Herbert chronology | ||||
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Singles from Letters I Haven't Written | ||||
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Letters I Haven't Written, the seventh album by British singer-songwriter Gwyneth Herbert, [1] was released on 12 October 2018. [2] It was produced at Rockfield Studios, Monmouth and, like Herbert's previous album The Sea Cabinet , was crowdfunded. [3] The songs on the album, all written by Herbert, have been described as "exquisitely crafted". [4] On the subjects of "love, gratitude and protest", [5] they are about the lost art of letterwriting. [1] [6] Reviewing the album for Jazzwise magazine, Peter Quinn said that "Letters I Haven't Written is by turns moving, thrilling and entrancing". [6]
Music from the album was previewed in a touring show which Herbert and her band performed at UK venues in 2017. [7]
The album cover features artwork by Julia Andrews-Clifford and a photograph of Herbert by Ian Wallman.
Herbert wrote "Not the Kind of Girl" for a screening, in 2010, of Marion Davies’ 1928 silent comedy classic The Patsy , at BFI Southbank's Birds Eye View Film Festival. [8] Ian Shaw covered the song on his 2017 album Shine Sister Shine. [9]
"You're Welcome" was inspired by the journey of the Windrush generation, the early migrants from the Caribbean who settled in the UK. It was released as a single in September 2018. [10]