Archangel Hill

The third album since Shirley Collins’s renaissance at 81 turns out to be the finest. — The Observer More…

Release Date: 26th May 2023
Catalogue No: WIGCD494
Label: Domino Recording Company

1. Fare Thee Well My Dearest Dear

2. Lost in a Wood

3. The Captain with the Whiskers

4. June Apple

5. The Golden Glove

6. High and Away

7. Oakham Poachers

8. Hares on the Mountain

9. Hand and Heart

10. The Bonny Labouring Boy

11. Swaggering Boney

12. How Far is it to Bethlehem?

13. Archangel Hill

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One of the most important voices in British folk music Shirley Collins returns with Archangel Hill, her third album for Domino. Due for release on May 26th, 2023, it showcases another peerless collection of songs chosen by Collins, some from traditional sources but others from favourite writers of hers.

Produced by Ian Kearey - Shirley Collins’ musical director - the arrangements were shared between Collins, Kearey, Pip Barnes, as well as Dave Arthur and Pete Cooper, players from The Lodestar Band.

All of the songs on Archangel Hill were recorded in 2022 except for “Hand And Heart”, which was taken from a live performance at the Sydney Opera House in 1980 and features an arrangement by Shirley’s beloved and talented sister Dolly Collins.

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The third album since Shirley Collins’s renaissance at 81 turns out to be the finest.

With its own low-key sparkle Archangel Hill stands testament to a musical third act every bit as engaging as anything that went before.

Archangle Hill is a great album… There's something about Collins's sound here that just feels right.

With Archangel Hill, Collins continues to deliver on the title of that extraordinary record, Folk Roots, New Routes: finding old ways to look forward and new ways to look back.

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