Brigid Mae Power | |
Type: | studio |
Artist: | Brigid Mae Power |
Cover: | Brigid Mae Power - Brigid Mae Power.jpg |
Alt: | A simple, stylized, and colorful piece of art of a fox |
Studio: | The Sparkle, Woods, Oregon, United States |
Genre: | Irish folk music |
Language: | English |
Label: | Tompkins Square |
Prev Title: | I Told You the Truth |
Prev Year: | 2014 |
Next Title: | The Ones You Keep Close |
Next Year: | 2017 |
Brigid Mae Power (album) is a 2016 studio album by Irish folk musician Brigid Mae Power. It has received positive reviews from critics.
Editors at AnyDecentMusic? rated this album a 7.4 out of 10, based on five reviews. Brigid Mae Power received positive reviews from critics noted at review aggregator Metacritic. It has a weighted average score of 85 out of 100, based on five reviews.
Writing for The Irish Times, Joe Breen rated this album 4 out of 5 stars, writing that "working with Oregon-based performer Peter Broderick has liberated her, she said, and this sparse, spectral collection is the evidence". Kitty Empire also gave a 4-star review for The Observer, writing that this album is "so full of feeling" and notes the powerful emotions in Power's lyrics. Pitchfork Media's Laura Snapes called this album "a liminal space made up of droning guitars, metallic piano reverberations, and lyrics that trace some barely escaped threat" with "clear seriousness" and a "sense of newfound freedom".
All songs written by Brigid Mae Power.