Description
Despite The Snow available on vinyl for first time - Limited edition 180 gram pressing to mark the final season of Wallander, mastered and cut at Gearbox, pressed at Optimal.
Packaged in gatefold sleeve, the album comes with a download code for full album plus three bonus tracks - including the Calum Malcolm-pro- duced version of Nostalgia. The newly remastered album features the theme to the BBC's acclaimed and multi-award-winning adaptation of Henning Mankell's Wallander novels, starring Kenneth Branagh.
"stripped free of studio frippery and all the better for its carefree simplicity" **** Q
"a masterpiece that will not fade in time." **** Maverick
"there are moments of transcendence here (on 'Nostalgia and 'All Love Knows' in particular) when everything is just so... perfect that it's all too much and a lump appears in the throat. An album of quiet power." **** Rock 'n' Reel
"strong melodies that at times evoke images of Richard and Linda Thompson... as strong a collection of acoustic folk songs that I have heard for a long time" 8/10 Amerciana UK
About the Artist
Emily Barker is the award-winning songwriter and performer of the theme to BBC TV's Wallander starring Kenneth Branagh. Her music is a blend of roots influences from country to English folk via 60s pop. She released three full albums with The Red Clay Halo: Despite the Snow (2008), Almanac (2011) and Dear River (2013), as well as solo albums Photos.Fires.Fables(2007) and The Toerag Sessions (2015) and albums with side projects Vena Portae (2014) and Applewood Road (2016).