Cold Blows The Rain vinyl

Those who have ventured to the West Yorkshire town of Todmorden will be able to hear the slate grey, downpour-threatening winter skies of the Calder Valley and south Pennines in the gentle choruses and verse, and soft, harmonious notes of Cold Blows The Rain. It's a corner of the North known for several things, like pub-club and record label The Golden Lion, and the most UFO sightings per person per year than anywhere else in England. A place where creativity seems to flow in the pipes. Out of this, Bridget Hayden's voice is as delicate and soothing as it is commanding and melancholic, invoking visions of ethereal encounters of barren moorlands as much as the blues musician's experience. Instrumentally, it's closer to the former, by a proper country mile, but really this is something else entirely. A kind of experimental traditionalism, dreamy, tranquil, hypnotic and utterly engrossing.