DREAMS OF BREATHING UNDERWATER

7e album. "Eliza Carthy has stepped outside her comfort zone - namely, sublime interpretations of traditional English tunes, and original compositions that sit alongside them - to create a folk phantasmagoria of a record. With mariachi horns, fuzzy electronica, achingly pure fiddle playing and the odd dirty grunge guitar, Dreams of Breathing Underwater suggests Angela Carter's magic-realist novels set to music in a smoky circus big top. And dressing up has freed Carthy. While Rosalie retains the lightness of touch of her traditional tunes, Lavenders evolves from a folk-drone into a piece of multilayered exotica; Simple Things applies dub-reggae production depths to a stream-of-consciousness lament. The former folk grail-keeper is investigating the artist/auteur method." (Stewart Lee, www.timesonline.co.uk)