BATTLE & VICTORY (VINYL)

Debut album release by new LEAF signing, 23-year-old multi-instrumentalist NANCY ELIZABETH, from Wigan in Lancashire, Drawing on classic British folk, Eastern European song, colliery brass bands, lambent psychedelia, medieval sonnets, and Gamelan scales, 'Battle And Victory' is honest, heartfelt, timeless and completely fresh, She demonstrates her master musicianship by claiming all writing credits and playing most of the instrumental menagerie involved, which includes guitar, khim, Indian harmonium, Appalachian dulcimer, and bouzouki, Her unmistakably Northern turn of phrase lends her work a refreshingly down-to-earth quality, The album was mainly recorded in a remote cottage in the depths of the Welsh countryside.