Anna B Savage – You and I Are Earth review

In the likely words of the industry suits, Ireland is so hot right now, musically at least. Ironically the industry’s decentralisation has helped reduce, if not remove the need to be chained to London, and a culture that’s always been highly resistant to Anglicisation has in recent years been given plenty of reason to harden it’s stance.

Anna B. Savage is far from the first person to fall in love with the country, it’s landscape, language and history, but her feelings have been squared by a new relationship, a bonding so profound that most of her third album is taken up with songs about it. You And I Are Earth brings the listener inside, letting them feel the contours of intimacy on the likes of I Reach For You In My Sleep and the opener Talk To Me, but as the title suggests, the singer has given herself up to the places’ roots, absorbed, becoming a part of it’s fabric in the process.

Joined by a cast of stellar contemporary Irish musicians, the material traverses folk, jazz and roots, Mo Cheol Thú pulling on older threads, whilst Lighthouse is joyously seaside. If all of this is too much for your Teflon coated heart then Agnes, with it’s etheral subject and Florence Welch stylings, offers an escape route. You And I Are Earth is Anna B Savage’s sweeping devotional, embracing things which are as old as time. Ireland is a rock which could just melt for her.

You can read a full review here.