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| Lift is aptly named, as it gives you one – though actually it’s Scots for “sky”. It’s the debut album from Sinsheen (Scots for “Sunshine”) who are Barbara Dymock and Christine Kydd, both well-known (to say the least) in Scottish traditional harmony singing, here supported by Michael Marra.
Themes covered are traditionally Scottish, from concerns about one’s fellow man, as in the tale of slavery abolitionist Harriet Tubman, to not-forgotten far-off things and battles long ago, as in an unusual version of “Loch Lomond,” and a rollicking account of somewhat inept carnality in “The Cooper O’ Cuddy Set”. An album that can raise a smile as well as a tear. |
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