Seldom do you hear so much dynamic breadth in a contemporary record

It really seems as if there is a true and equal give and take between performer and listener

We understand each other's strengths and weaknesses

which crackles through every second of their debut full-length

with bracing rumination and longing delivery

BRIDGET HAYDEN AND THE APPARITIONS - Cold Blows the Rain LP Riot Grrrl Seldom do you hear soThe reinterpreted traditional folk songs that make up Cold Blows the Rain are shaped by the land and the weather. Wrapped in mist and drizzle, the crawling drone of low heavy clouds on flat top moors. The sound of the dark Calder Valley floor and sun starved hills around Todmorden, West Yorkshire in the North of England