'To Be Free' was the first song that made me listen to Lady Torrini. Since then of course shes invariably mentioned for her talents of singing 'Gollums Song' and writing 'Slow' for our Kyles. Yet the crowning achievement of her career so far is the album Fisherman's Woman.
Fisherman's Woman is almost a concept album which for me describes a whole year being apart from your loved one. The title shows the flights of fancy that our minds take us on during this heightened sense of loneliness, she imagines hes not gone, but is really a brave fisherman 'on the sea, where he has to be for months at a time'. Melancholy sweeps over her, good days turn sour when she thinks she saw him on the train, and endless coffee mornings highlight the cheery monotony of life untroubled by love until at night both must listen to the sound 'of the boat creaking' to get to sleep.
The brightest. and one of the most poignant tracks, 'Sunny Road' talks of the letter he wrote. Foreshadowing the halcyon days at years end, when they can go and meet upon the Sunny Road. Maybe the year apart turned to years, or it just seems that way, and maybe they grew apart, but the image of the Sunny Road keeps them bound.
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I fucking love this woman. Hope her next record is in the offing and that it is at least as god as FW.
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