Jonny Kearney and Lucy Farrell Release Debut Album
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Written by Elliott Batte
18 months after their acclaimed debut EP ‘The North Farm Sessions’ hit shelves, Jonny Kearney and Lucy Farrell finally release their debut album Kite.
Delicate, haunting and heartbreaking are just a few of the words that have been used to describe the music of Jonny Kearney and Lucy Farrell. After meeting at Newcastle University 6 years ago, they formed an unlikely alliance – unlikely because Jonny, with his bittersweet kitchen-sink dramas, shows sympathy with American storytellers like Dylan and Tom Waits, while Lucy’s traditional folkie upbringing and vocal style couldn’t be more English.
Their six-track EP entitled ‘The North Farm Sessions’ received 4 stars from The Guardian and Q, BBC Radio 1, 2, 3 and 6 airplay, and sold heavily on tour supports with The Unthanks and Bellowhead, and at summer festivals including Green Man, End of the Road and Cambridge.
It speaks volumes about the quality and quantity of their song-writing that non of the EP tracks feature on debut album ‘Kite’. There is continuity however, in Kearney and Farrell’s relationship with Adrian McNally, pianist, producer and arranger for The Unthanks. Like the EP, Kite was recorded at the farmhouse home of McNally and wife Rachel Unthank.
Jonny and Lucy dedicate the album to Rachel and Adrian’s son George, who was born in the last month of making the album. “We rate them so highly, it just feels like a responsibility and a pleasure to do whatever we can for them,” says McNally, who wrote the string arrangements on the album as well as producing it. “What they have is magical and ought to take them much further than we could ever hope!”
Kite will be available exclusively from their live album tour, starting Sept 22nd, before its commercial retail release on the day of their final show, Oct 10th. If you want to catch Jonny Kearney and Lucy Farrell on tour this autumn, check the dates and details below.
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