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I grew up in a rambling country house with damp bubbling from the walls and ghosts lurking in the locked ...

"Northern Irish singer-songwriter Bróna McVittie has dropped her ethereal third album The Woman in the Moon. Known for her eerie, ...

"This album is like being able to travel back in time to days of childhood innocence. A time when things ...

"This album is yet another example of the high art of Bróna McVittie" Séan Laffey ...

"Bold and audacious in ways you wouldn’t expect, Bróna McVittie‘s The Woman in the Moon is probably her most progressive folk album to ...

"So, after 2020's The Man In The Mountain we now greet The Woman In The Moon. Irish singer songwriter Bróna ...

"Her interpretation of folk music is truly visionary, vital and refreshing. Bróna has steadily built a reputation for her eerie, ...

No. 5 in The Guardian's 10 Best Folk Albums of 2021. "The ambient fringes of folk flower on this small-label ...

"Not content with just reinterpreting the past, the County Down artist is adding her own folk tales to the genre" ...

"A masterpiece of musicianship and literary imagination" Jonathan Roscoe ...

The Man in the Mountain - Folk Radio UK Best 100 Albums of 2020 "McVittie is an avid experimentalist, willing ...

No. 4 in The Guardian's 10 Best Folk Albums of 2020 "Beginning like a lost soundtrack from a late 60s ...

"With so many different styles and influences juxtaposed, artistically referenced and intelligently refined, this album clearly defines Bróna McVittie as ...

"It would be easy to pigeonhole her alongside other folktronica artists such as Beth Orton, Caribou and Tunng, the latter ...

"McVittie's voice is clear, hypnotic and uncannily timeless, floating between Broadcast's Trish Keenan and Clannad's Moya Brennan. A fantastic, exploratory ...

"Renowned singer-songwriter Bróna McVittie has drawn on Irish mythology and local Mourne folklore for inspiration for her new album The ...

"The Man In The Mountain’s predecessor was one of the best releases of 2018, but somehow Brona McVittie has surpassed ...

Beautifully conceived and imaginative, Bróna McVittie and her subtle foils on this eloquent lush songbook push Celtic imbued folk gently ...

JUDE ROGERS'S FOLK ALBUM OF THE MONTH (September 2020) "You’re put in the place of a bird navigating wide open ...

"It happens less and less but there are those magic occasions when you hear a piece of music for the first ...

"Once more, Brona McVittie establishes her well deserved place in contemporary music as she weaves together deep and mysterious aspects ...

"Music is such a powerful tool for storytelling and we've so many wonderful folk tales in Ireland" Irish Music Magazine ...

"There were electronic echoes a-plenty also in the opening set from Co Down singer and harpist Brona McVittie, accompanied by ...

“An album full of inventive arrangements that is well worth a listen” Ian Croft, R2 Magazine ...

“Fantastic solo debut” Eileen McCabe, Irish Music Magazine ...

“Memorably evokes her native Co Down” Sarah Coxson, fROOTS ...

“McVittie’s music goes some way to showing us what Yeats was searching for” Nicky Crewe, Penny Black Music ...

“I can’t stop listening to this…it’s a really special album!” Lauren Laverne, BBC Radio 6 Music ...

“McVittie takes her inspiration from W.B. Yeats’s idea of a kind of Celtic phantasmagoria which can be felt but remains ...

“Excellent folk opus” Pete Wiggs, The Séance ...

“A debut album of serious quality. Inventive modern folk” Duncan Haskill, Songwriting Magazine ...

“On We Are the Wildlife, Brona’s timeless and tireless psycho-geographic quest for the meaning and nature of ‘the Celtic heart’ is ...

“A debut album which answers that much asked question “Where now for folk music?”…” Dave Franklin, Dancing About Architecture ...

“McVittie has made an album that is uniquely and distinctly her own. Without doubt one of the most inventive and ...

“A profoundly powerful and quietly ambitious statement and one of the most distinctive debuts you are likely to hear all ...

“Well worth investigating” Gideon Coe, BBC Radio 6 Music ...

“A rare, and rarefied, beauty” Andy Gill, The Independent ...

“Beautifully embroidered folk…sweetness and bite…A stimulating debut” Jude Rogers, The Guardian ...

“Heavenly debut…boldly experimental…Simply gorgeous” Nigel Williamson, Uncut Magazine ...

“Pastoral folk music through a kosmische filter” Conor O’Toole, Underground of Happiness ...

"Relocates you to another place, somewhere magical and far from the fury and decay of modern day life" Mark Barton, ...

“Pleasingly dreamy folk tones but with a strong and haunting undercurrent of otherworldliness...persuasive vocals up close and hushed...unexpected bass intrusions ...

"Nature reverberates wonderfully in an alchemy of traditional and contemporary instrumentation, making for an exquisite listen from this post-folk electronic ...

“Stunning…gorgeous single. There’s no denying her sheer talent as a beautiful singer and harpist which is why we’ve chosen both ...