Folk Singer Liz Green to Release Debut Album ‘O, Devotion!’
Saturday, 03 September 2011
Written by Rob Sleigh
Manchester-based folk singer Liz Green has announced details of her debut album ‘O, Devotion!’, which is due for release on 14th November. The album is produced with Liam Watson, who previously worked with The White Stripes on their Grammy Award-winning ‘Elephant’. Liz Green recently released a single ‘Displacement Song’ – watch the video below.
Liz Green released her debut single ‘Bad Medicine’ in 2007. During the same year, she won Glastonbury Festival’s Emerging Talent competition to earn the honour of opening the festival’s Pyramid Stage on the Saturday.
Speaking about work on the album, she said: “I didn’t really get on with recording. After playing live, which is so of the moment, you go to a studio and are stuck in this sterile environment with microphones pointing at you. I used to dread recording days. After three years we still weren’t any nearer and I’m sure everyone was as frustrated as I was. I even tried drawing faces on the studio wall - to give the impression of an audience - or getting horrendously drunk so as to emulate my live behaviour. I needed someone to say, ‘Stop! That’s the one’, which is what Liam did. And it finally sounded like what I thought I sounded like in my head.”
Going on to explain the title of the record, she added: “The longer this album took to make, the more it seemed to suit it. Devotion is love and frustration, hope and desperation, exhaustion and joy. Without a level of blind devotion, it wouldn’t have ever been made.”
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