Name: A Dark Murmuration of Words
Brand: Emily Barker

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

ES158CDX

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

Deluxe CD. Casebound Book with 24 Inner Pages.

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2020-09-04

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

The Orchard

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

5065001118623

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1 / CD / Extended format: Yes / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

ES158LP

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Black

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Extended format: No

5065001118630

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

ES158CD

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Standard CD. Remus Gatefold, with 12 Page Booklet.

5065001118616

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Emily Barker

Genre GB

Folk

Label GB

Everyone Sang

Albums of the Year 2020

Emily Barker is an Australian singer-songwriter, born on 2 December 1980 in Bridgetown, Western Australia. Currently based in England, she has established herself as a talented artist with her unique blend of folk and Americana music.
With her soulful vocals and heartfelt lyrics, Emily Barker has captivated audiences around the world. Her music tells stories that resonate with listeners, exploring themes of love, loss, and personal growth.
Having released several critically acclaimed albums over the years, Emily Barker continues to push boundaries and evolve as an artist. Her songs have been featured in popular TV shows and films, further solidifying her place in the music industry.

A Dark Murmuration of Words contends with a modern era built on racial and gender inequality, poverty and slavery, environmental exploitation and the climate crisis, finding them all connected by the dark shadow of patriarchy, pursuits of power, and the suppression of history. Referencing Emily Dickinson’s assertion that “If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves,” Barker draws connections between the familial, the local, and the global: a mother sings to her unborn child, asking for its forgiveness on Strange Weather, Where Have The Sparrows Gone? looks outside an apartment window and imagines a post-apocalyptic birdless London, and a monument to a Confederate general comes alive for a “how-I-got-away-with-it” confession on Machine. Throughout A Dark Murmuration of Words, all of our choices, our unspoken prejudices, our carelessness, connect us to the whole, but becoming aware and honest on a local, personal scale, can begin to effect change, allow for healing, and tease out beauty from chaos.

A Dark Murmuration of Words

Music GB

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