Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

To be Her By Design is to rip up the rule book and the historic illusion passed down in traditional forms that do more than suggest that womanhood in storytelling was fraught by the magnitude of being overlooked as pandering to a stereotype that consisted of a limited number of possible outcomes; from fairy tales to folk music, there were so few ways in which a song for example could capture the essence of a woman, the complexity and viewpoints beyond heroine or princess requiring rescue, the old and disfigured witch like queen, or enchantress shunned by society…as award winning musician Jenn Butterworth rightly conveys in her new album, Her By Design, with authority and meticulous observation.