Description
An inquisitive, complex and fully matured album from an artist who has travelled long and far. C&bell was first noticed as a teenage founder member of Belle & Sebastian, before she released two dreamfolk solo albums under the name The Gentle Waves and left B&S in 2002. Two records under her own name followed, leading to a union with late rockcarved growler Mark Lanegan for three albums of gravelnhoney Americana duets, where Lanegan would stand aside while C&bell called the creative shots.A move to LA and a neardecade of label troubles followed the latter ended with There Is No Other in 2020 before as C&bell puts it the world went down the crapper for the pandemic. And on Bow to Love, suggests C&bell, the worlds ongoing troubles are clear. Anyone with two eyes, a brain and a heart can see that people are struggling, and I suppose I have a lot of thoughts about that. And its this album.An album that also, says C&bell, has thoughts about how the future remains unwritten. I feel like were living in some kind of dystopia, but I think its up to us what we buy into and what we react to. We do have a choice, even if sometimes we think we dont. You can still see acts of great kindness. In all the bleakness, thats what I hang on to. We are cocreators. Where we go next is up to us. Mounted with clearsighted artistry and care, Bow to Love is a light in the dark of uncertain times.
