When it came to composing for her new album In the Low Light, British singer-songwriter Lucy Kitchen’s songs first started life as small poems, a simple way to capture her thoughts and mood during a very difficult time: her husband’s battle with cancer and, tragically, his eventual death. With such a heavy shadow hanging over it, perhaps the most surprising thing about the album is that it’s not all darkness and depression; in fact, there is a brightness of hope there too that reflects the mending Kitchen found through the creative process.
The album opener, ‘Winter King’, is hauntingly bleak as Kitchen, her voice fragile and airy, expresses yearning using some fantastic, dark, imagery: “Would you come to me on…