Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
To lift any single from a truly mesmerising album can be seen on occasion as either an act of wallet piracy or an act of sabotage against the memory of what lingered through the mind when the listener first came across the piece of recording. At worst it can lead to the song being taken out of context, placing the music down as an afterthought desert but one filled with the remains of the starter and the main course.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
The feeling of the fancy of the notions of spectral unseen beings are abound throughout the new album from Emily Portman, so much so that Coracle is more than a set of songs loosely tied together by packaging and a set of songs that glide across the listener’s attention; Coracle is arguably the philosophy of the spirit transformed and given life.
Philosophy is always subjective, like the thoughts of an English Literature student groping in mid air for the one true reason of why a poet’s work fits the ethos of existence and yet when the answer comes, it blinks wildly with the excited charms of a robin fending off a seagull from its nest.