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Katherine Priddy
The Pendulum Swing
(Cooking Vinyl)
★★★
FOLLOWING her well received 2021 debut, English musician Katherine Priddy returns with another set of pastoral-tinged contemporary folk.
There is a noticeable maturing in the songwriting and arguably a more rounded sound too. At the same time there are few surprises, with the enchanting mid-tempo tunes and hushed vocals of her previous work still the dominant mode of transmission.
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