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Released
  
19 August 2013

Artist
  
Lucy Ward

Label
  
Navigator Records

Length
  
48:43

Release date
  
19 August 2013

Genre
  
Folk music

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Single Flame (2013)
  
I Dreamt I Was a Bird (2015)

Single Flame, the second album of British singer-songwriter Lucy Ward, was released in the United Kingdom by Navigator Records on 19 August 2013. It was critically acclaimed and received a four-starred review in The Guardian.

Contents

Songs

The album includes "For the Dead Men", a self-penned protest song, which was released as a single in January 2012 coupled with a remixed version of "Maids When You’re Young".

Reception

In a four-starred review for The Guardian, Robin Denselow said that Lucy Ward "proves to be an even more mature and thoughtful singer-songwriter than she was on Adelphi Has to Fly" and described her follow-up album as "impressive and original" and "a brooding, often angry set that deals with everything from politics to love, death and personal tragedy, with a couple of powerful traditional songs added in".

Hazel Davis, for americanaUK, described it as a much angrier album than her debut release but "a genuinely eclectic sounding collection" with "songs that are Thea Gilmore-good".

Simon Holland, for Folk Radio UK, said that the album was "charged, emotive and utterly compelling".

Track listing

  1. "I Cannot Say I Will Not Speak" (Lucy Ward) 4:04
  2. "Honey" (Stu Hanna/Lucy Ward) 3:41
  3. "The Last Pirouette" (Lucy Ward) 3:55
  4. "Icarus" (Lucy Ward) 5:14
  5. "Velvet Sky" (Stu Hanna/Lucy Ward) 4:13
  6. "Rites of Man" (Lucy Ward) 5:08
  7. "The Consequence" (Lucy Ward) 2:15
  8. "Lord I Don't Want To Die In the Storm (Stu Hanna/Lucy Ward) 4:09
  9. "For the Dead Men" (Lucy Ward) 4:25
  10. "Marching Through the Green Grass" (Traditional) 2:50
  11. "Ink" (Lucy Ward) 4:11
  12. "Shellback" (Lucy Ward) 4:38

Total album length = 48:43

Personnel

  • Lucy Ward – vocals, guitar, concertina
  • Izzl Cooper – cello
  • Anna Esslemont – violin (on "For the Dead Men")
  • Joy Gravestock – violin
  • Sebastian Hale Smith – double bass
  • Debbie Hanna – backing vocals
  • Stu Hanna – guitar, banjo, mandolin, fiddle, B3 organ and backing vocals
  • Sam Pegg – bass guitar
  • Stephen MacLachlan – drums

    • Production

    Single Flame was produced by Stu Hanna from Megson, who also performs on the album, with his wife Debbie Hanna providing backing vocals.

    Songs

    1I Cannot Say I Will Not Speak4:06
    2Honey3:43
    3The Last Pirouette3:58

    References

    Single Flame Wikipedia
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