Laura Cannell & Polly Wright “re-voice” the British pastoral on Sing As The Crow Flies

Drawing on a frustration at the lack of women’s voices in pastoral narratives.

Laura Cannell & Polly Wright’s Sing As The Crow Flies album has been released on vinyl for the first time, by Boomkat Editions.

Aiming to give a voice to the “lost, forgotten and hidden people who have lived, worked and loved through the centuries,” the duo used only their voices to craft the album.

Sing As The Crow Flies also draws on a shared frustration at the lack of women’s voices in writings on the British pastoral.

Now making its vinyl debut, the album was originally created as a site specific sound installation for the 2019 Waveney Valley Sculpture Trail.

It follows Boomkat’s release of Perila’s Everything Is Already There album — one of our favourite records from April.

Purchase a copy of Sing As The Crow Flies here, and check out the artwork and tracklist below.

Tracklist:

1. One For The Rook One For The Crow
2. Help Me To Salt Help Me To Sorrow
3. Sing As The Crow Flies
4. I Was Not Born In A Wood To Be Scared By An Owl
5. Marsh Village Psalms
6. All I Have I Give To Thee
7. Sing As The Crow Flies Lullaby
8. Marshland Banshees
9. Revoicing Hraefns People

Photo by: Paul Hudson