Time Bend and Break the Bower

Description

Communing at the triangulation of words, music and image, O’Brien has always conjured powerful worlds: but none more powerful, or as immersive, than on her debut record. In the space that exists between her delivery – at once wry, silky, vicious, and self-assured – and the music – a dynamic, dancing call-and-response from her collaborators, guitarist Julian Hanson and drummer Oscar Robertson – lies a productive tension. Using a method of creating on-instinct, in constant communication with multisensory cues, O’Brien is carving out a space as a musical oracle for an ever-shifting era. The 11-track album was produced by indie super-producer Dan Carey (Fontaines DC, Squid, Black Midi, Kae Temptest, Bat For Lashes, Hot Chip, Franz Ferdinand) and recorded in his south London studio Mr Dan’s in late 2021.

Tracklisting

Disc 1
1. Pain Is the Fashion of the Spirit – Sinead O’Brien
2. Salt – Sinead O’Brien
3. Girlkind – Sinead O’Brien
4. End of Days – Sinead O’Brien
5. Like Culture – Sinead O’Brien
6. The Rarest Kind – Sinead O’Brien
7. Holy Country – Sinead O’Brien
8. Spare for My Size, Me – Sinead O’Brien
9. There Are Good Times Coming – Sinead O’Brien
10. Multitudes – Sinead O’Brien
11. Go Again – Sinead O’Brien