Some albums become special through repeated listening: they grow on you, opening up over time to reveal more complex layers and hidden depths. Some are special because they represent a certain memorable point in the listener’s life: a graduation, a wedding, a death. Some are simply great from the word go, world-changing works of artistic genius. But very few come sprinkled with the kind of magic dust that coats the new album by Georgia Shackleton. This is an album with a story behind it, and that story is worth telling because it directly impacts the music. A distant relative of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton, Georgia recently came into possession of the Shackleton Violin, an instrument made from the floorboards of Ernest’s former home in Edinburgh.

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