It takes a brave artist to channel all their experiences, negative as well as positive, into their music. Yet Nick Mulvey has done just that on album number four, gathering all the difficulties experienced in the three years and channelling them into not one but two searching albums.
A friend reassured him during these times of loss, challenge and grief, that there would indeed be a ‘dark harvest’, and ‘treasure from these struggles’. They were proved right, Mulvey’s experiences yielding not one but two albums – the second of which is due later this year. Part one shows how rich the inspiration has been, though in the course of 11 tracks we visit some dark corners of the author’s mind, with lingering glimpses of the strength that has got him through.