Name: No Harm Done
Brand: Josephine Foster

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

FIRELP605

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Colour

Black

Colour details

Discogs ID

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: Yes

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Housed in Reverse Board Sleeve.

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2020-11-20

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Cargo

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

809236160515

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Total Cap

1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Josephine Foster

Genre GB

Folk

Label GB

Fire Records

Fire Records is an independent record label headquartered in London, England, UK. Founded in the mid 80s, Fire Records has been a prominent force in the music industry for decades. They have released early records from Pulp, Teenage Fanclub, Spacemen 3, Blue Aeroplanes, and many other influential artists. In the early 90s, the label was home to notable acts such as Neutral Milk Hotel, The Lemonheads, Built to Spill, and Urge Overkill.With a rich history of discovering talent and nurturing their careers, Fire Records remains dedicated to supporting groundbreaking musicians across various genres. Their diverse roster showcases both established names and emerging talents who push boundaries and challenge conventions.

American folk and psychedelic singer-songwriter from Colorado.
Josephine Foster is an acclaimed American artist known for her unique blend of folk and psychedelic music. Hailing from Colorado, Foster has captivated audiences with her soulful vocals and poetic songwriting. With a career spanning over two decades, she has released numerous albums that showcase her versatile talent and artistic vision. Whether performing solo or collaborating with other musicians, Foster's music transcends genres and transports listeners to a world of introspection and emotion.
With each album, Josephine Foster continues to push the boundaries of traditional folk music, infusing it with elements of psychedelia and experimental sounds. Her hauntingly beautiful voice resonates with authenticity, drawing inspiration from diverse musical influences such as blues, country, and classical music. Known for her introspective lyrics and captivating melodies, Foster's songs have a timeless quality that speaks directly to the heart.

Brand new album from Colorado’s freewheelin’ melodist Josephine Foster. Revolving between her adopted Spain and her native American West, Josephine was stationed this spring in Nashville with maverick guitarist and comrade-in-arms Matthew Schneider. The result: No Harm Done, a spacious and enveloping love letter of an album.

Eight new slow-burning songs branch forth from idiosyncratic country folk blues, sung with sibylline wit and a hint of the absurd, awash in sensually anachronic lyricism.

The Wheel of Fortune, nearly a title track by virtue of its refrain: 'No harm will come/if there's no harm done', are words of a homebound wanderer finding refuge in healing stillness with her beloved, having 'time to kill' in the midst of 'hard times to feel at home'. All delivered with calm sagacity upon the pedestal of Mr. Schneider's pedal steel and underscored by a knowing trebled chorus in Foster's lower register. Going nowhere never felt like so righteous of a destination before. Devotion in all its permutations, spiritual to carnal, are seamlessly explored.

In Conjugal Bliss, overtones of the 12-string and autoharp gently interplay, sounding like some unearthed Carter family wedding hymn (it bears the subversive subtitle '69' ) while How come, Honeycomb? bounces low in the hips like a sultry old music hall number à la Harry Nilsson. The obliquely sapphic Leonine, it's unquiet harp scaling right out of ancient Lesbos, dreams of a kingless land; in Sure Am Devilish, a stargazer humbly confesses to a lowercase lord. Old Saw, the mesmeric album closer, is a medium's petition to cross the threshold and merge with the holy spirit.

Josephine's enigmatic voice captured once more by frequent co-producer Andrija Tokic in his analog Bomb Shelter studio, where layers of her guitar, piano, organ entwine with Schneider's 12-string, pedal steel and electric bass to rouse a spectral yet full blooded band. The ensuing cycle of songs pulse and glow within the ruins and deep fundamental roots of American song.