There is a reason Emma Swift calls The Resurrection Game, her first full-length collection of all original material, a “bummer of an album,” as it took coming back from a mental health crisis for the singer-songwriter to develop these ten tracks.
The Sydney, Australia-born, Nashville-based Swift had a major nervous breakdown, leading her to be hospitalized for weeks and work for over a year to recover from her fragile state. Dealing with this mental pain, she somehow managed to turn these feelings of fear and helplessness into works of art. Teaming up with producer Jordan Lehning (Kacey Musgraves, Rodney Crowell) Swift gathered some of Nashville’s brightest and decamped to Chale Abbey studio on the Isle of Wight.
The island’s sense of isolation fed into…