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Hirta Songs

Alasdair Roberts & Robin Robertson

Hirta Songs

Collaborative album from a Scots folkster and a poet, taking its name from an island in the St Kilda archipelago off the west coast of Scotland

ADM rating[?]

7.7

Label
Stone Tape Recordings
UK Release date
18/11/2013
US Release date
18/11/2013
  1. 8.5 |   The Quietus

    Rarely for an Alasdair Roberts album, one is not dazzled by the unusual guitar tunings and changing rhythms – the simplicity of the music lends more weight to Robertson's verse
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  2. 8.0 |   All Music

    It manages to create a strong and haunting emotional bond between the listener and a place, regardless of whether the listener has set foot there
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  3. 8.0 |   The Observer

    Its evocation of bleak seascapes and harsh lives is transportative
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  4. 8.0 |   Mojo

    A deeply moving tale of hardship, privation and the awesome power of nature. Print edition only

  5. 8.0 |   Uncut

    One of Roberts' rootsiest sounding records to date. Print edition only

  6. 8.0 |   The List

    The song structures are less baroque and the arrangements sparser than those of Roberts’ other 2013 album, A Wonder Working Stone, yet Hirta Songs is just as rich a work
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  7. 8.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    Roberts has a gift for siting songs – the spindly and spirited alike – in their own space, and St Kilda is not abused as a concept
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