WA’s Emily Barker is based in London and making great headway as “the new Laura Marling”. Taken from her third album, Almanac, Billowing Sea is a bouncing folk tune that misses by miles the weighty sadness of her earlier singles, Nostalgia and Bones. The cello and fiddle parts are lovely, but Emily’s voice is strained and choppy and the song is all over the place. The trilling Disney flute line is also a bit much.
Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo : Billowing Sea
