release date: Apr. 14, 2014
format: cd
[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,52]
producer: Liam Watson
label: Play It Again Sam - nationality: England, UK
Track highlights:
1. "Battle" -
2. "Haul Away" - 3. "Rybka" - 4. "River Runs Deep" - 5. "Where the River Don't Flow" - 7. "Into My Arms" - 8. "Island Song" - 9. "Little I"
2nd album by Liz Green released on Play It Again Sam. Liz is a multi-talented artist, who did all the artwork for the album as she did on her debut O, Devotion! (Nov. 2011). Aside for singing, writing and composing these songs, she's credited playing piano, guitar, organ, clarinet, and banjo.
The album takes off where the debut left us 2½ years ago. Liz keeps to her formula based on traditional British folk and singer / songerwriter material, and thank god for that, because she has such a unique voice and style, which both signals a contemporary blend and yet at the same time points decades and centuries backwards in time. This may turn out just as wonderful as the debut, but I haven't accustomed to this as her first release.
EDIT May 2015
Liz Green is quite unique, and she's really one of the most interesting modern solo artists from Britain today. This album is still mighty fine and far from a mediocre release, but I don't think it's really up there alongside her astonishing 2011 debut. And of course lesser will do.
EDIT May 2018
With a bit of concern I've read this translated Spanish interview with Liz Green where she speaks with José Vicente Bernabeu from CaféBabel [French-based online magazine] at a time when she performed in Clermont-Ferrand in France at Europavox Festival, June 2014. In the interview Green expresses no good feelings about performing with her music, in fact she states that she finds that her music doesn't work at a bigger scale and: "... the truth is, I don't know what I want to do at the moment. Right now, I just want to go home. I'm really, really tired. I haven't been home for two months and, for real, I just want to get my normal life back. Making a normal life like normal people do, and that's it. We've spent a lot of money on all this and it's not working, so I just want to go home." My guess is, Green refers to spending money on producing another album and realising the obstacles of the current music industry.
I came across the interview as I was searching for new info about Liz in hope of news of an upcoming third album, but I discovered absolutely no info about her performing live, nor about plans of new recordings, which seems odd as both of her albums were met by positive feedback but she appears to be on an indefinte hiatus since the 2014 album, or she has left the business - perhaps to concentrate on her figurative art, and with the abovementioned interview in mind simply not enjoying making music.
Now it's only some 4 years since her second album and other artists have been known to take longer breaks from the industry, so let's hope to hear new from the great Liz Green at some point in a near future.
