Name: Golden Eagle
Brand: Holly Macve

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bella550cd

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2017-03-03

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Supplier GB

PIAS

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Artist

Holly Macve

Genre GB

Singer Songwriter

Label GB

Bella Union

Bella Union is a UK label that has been run by Simon Raymonde, former member of Cocteau Twins, since 1997. With a focus on discovering new talent, Bella Union has introduced the world to bands such as Fleet Foxes, Beach House, Lanterns on The Lake, I Break Horses, Ballet School, and Midlake. As a ℗ & © coyright holding entity, Bella Union continues to be at the forefront of the music industry.

Holly Macve is an Irish country music singer and songwriter. Her soulful voice and heartfelt lyrics have captivated audiences around the world. Drawing inspiration from artists such as Lillie Mae, Dori Freeman, and Whitney Rose, Holly's music has a timeless quality that resonates with listeners of all ages.

With her unique blend of traditional country sounds and modern storytelling, Holly has carved out a niche for herself in the music industry. Her songs are filled with raw emotion and vulnerability, painting vivid pictures of love, loss, and longing.

Whether she's performing on stage or recording in the studio, Holly brings an authenticity to her music that is truly captivating. With each song she writes and every note she sings, *Holly Macve* invites us into her world - a world filled with passion, honesty, and undeniable talent.

Rough Trade Album of the Month: March 2017 

Holly Macve releases her much-anticipated debut album, Golden Eagle, on Bella Union. With its spellbinding country and western ballads and devastating emotional delivery, the album is one of the most remarkably assured debuts of this or any other year, especially given she’s though only 21 years old. Born in Galway in western Ireland, Macve and her sister were whisked away “in the night” by her mother from their errant father, to live with her grandparents in Yorkshire.

Once in their own house, Holly quickly responded to music: “My Grandad was a classical composer, and my mum sang, and she said I was singing before I was talking,” she recalls. Her mother’s record collection - lots of old blues and Bob Dylan – shaped Holly’s impressionable mind, before she herself discovered the likes of Leonard Cohen, Johnny Cash and Gillian Welch. 

Hiding away in Yorkshire, “isolated, surrounded by countryside”, her imagination took flight. All Of Its Glory evokes her great-grandad, serving in WWI, writing impassioned letters (which the family still own, bound in a book) to his wife at home. Other songs describe ‘blood red fields’ and ‘burning skies’, and ‘a man standing by the river bank / His eyes were blue and his hair was jet black….’ The bulk of Golden Eagle was recorded in Newcastle at the home studio of producer Paul Gregory (of Bella Union label-mates Lanterns On The Lake), with extra recording in Brighton and London with her first touring band and Macve performing on acoustic guitar and piano. Yet Golden Eagle remains beautifully spare and delicate, putting Holly’s goosebump-raising voice centre stage, beautifully controlled yet riven with feeling.

Read our interview with Holly in issue 12 of the Rough Trade Magazine <a href="https://roughtrade.com/magazines/magazine-issue-12">here</a>

Golden Eagle

Music GB

Discover Golden Eagle by Holly Macve. A spellbinding debut album of country and western ballads, with a devastating emotional delivery. Available in LP and CD formats from Bella Union.