Josienne Clarke today releases her debut solo album In All Weather via Rough Trade / Remote Control Records.
The album In All Weather is a new collection of songs by writer, singer and musician Josienne Clarke, it’s a record with which she goes it alone; both musically, as this is her first solo record, and in her own life, laid bare and played out in the leave-it-all-behind-and-start-
Fans of Josienne Clarke’s previous melancholic chamber-folk duo will recognise her uniquely sorrowful and jewel-like vocal style. But these new songs were sung and played by Josienne in the manner they’ve always been written; emotionally raw, immediate and unvarnished. Gone are the duo’s grandiose arrangements; Josienne accompa
“These are not love songs, these are life songs; lifelines to save me from sinking. Each one a hard-won lesson in how not to do things next time. It’s a manifesto of how to leave and how to change.”
It’s a record that not only addresses every aspect of that personal, professional and geographical leaving and changing, it’s also a record that wouldn’t exist if she hadn’t made these giant steps.
“I exiled myself, moved to an island, metaphorically and literally; broke up with everything but songwriting, to re-make myself and learn to let it all go in peace.”
With In All Weather a lot has changed. But Josienne Clarke remains one of the most impressive, accomplished and downright heart-breaking singers, lyricists and composers we’ve got.
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Josienne Clarke – ‘If I Didn’t Mind’
Josienne Clarke – In All Weather
1. (Learning To Sail) In All Weather
2. Seconds
3. The Drawing Of The Line
4. Leaving London
5. My Love Gave Me An Apple
6. If I Didn’t Mind
7. Host
8. Slender, Sad & Sentimental
9. Season And Time
10. Walls & Hallways
11. Fair Weather Friends
12. Dark Weather Cloud
13. Onliness
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