…adds 2 previously unreleased tracks to the digital re-release, including early, stripped-back demos of “Bronwyn”, as well as the album’s title track.
“The brilliance of the day waits for you to wake again,” sings Hannah Frances at the beginning of “Bronwyn,” the opening track of her new album, Keeper of the Shepherd. “Patient in the way I waited for you to love me again.” A lilting but off-kilter time signature carries the song along as oddly tuned, slightly dissonant acoustic and electric guitars are intertwined. As on previous albums, like Bedrock (2021) and White Buffalo (2018), Frances maintains a woodsy, avant-folk sound that is both inviting and curiously unsettling. You can hear Nick Drake, Jeff Buckley, and Joni Mitchell in these songs, but also Kate Bush, Radiohead,…

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