By Darren Grayer.
Romsey singer/songwriter Lucy Kitchen releases her third album at the end of February with a gig to celebrate its launch at Heartbreakers Bar on Sunday 1st March.
Lucy’s music is steeped in traditional folk, with threads of Americana and the timeless spirit of 70s singer/songwriters, and has gained her comparisons to Joni Mitchell and Beth Orton, and vocally, Sandy Denny.
Titled In The Low Light, the album has already received glowing reviews from highly respected music publications such as Mojo and Shindig! Magazine, with the former describing the album’s eleven songs as beautiful and something to listen to all the way through.
It was written after Lucy tragically lost her husband Stephen to cancer in October 2022 and lyrically, it’s a profoundly personal piece of work that reflects upon that time and life before and since, and acts as a way of processing pain while celebrating love. Musically, it features Lucy singing and playing guitar and flute, with added arrangements that include piano, banjo, bass, drums, mellotron, brass, and pedal steel.
The overall result is both stunning and hauntingly beautiful. It’s a very emotional and, at times raw listen that remarkably, still offers warmth, hope and defiance against a background of personal loss.
Explaining how the title for the album came about on social media, Lucy reflects, “I wrote a lot of the album in Wintertime between November and February in late 2022, early 2023. A load of songs just started coming and a lot of them were written in the low light when everything was dark, but also when I felt quite paused, and when I was kind of in a low period of my life where I was in a low light and I was grieving and there’s a kind of stillness that happens”.
Lucy will be accompanied by a full backing band at Heartbreakers on the 1st with support coming from local Americana band Lost Post.
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