This week’s session is with Laura Gibson. We caught up with Laura before her recent solo show at St. John on Bethnal Green, London. The song is taken from Laura’s 2018 album, Goners. The whole record is honest, open and…
There is no getting around it. Laura Gibson’s voice is quiet. On stage, protected by the hushed anticipation of a near-silent crowd, that is much of what gives Gibson her power as a performer. That and her knack for a…
Finally, this writer’s thirst for a new Laura Gibson record has been quenched. The wait at times since January 2012’s La Grande did feel at times interminable. Empire Builder comes with a story of its own, as the result of…
We first became enamoured by Laura Gibson with debut album If You Come To Greet Me, and again with 2009 follow-up, Beasts of Seasons. Elegiac and gentle, both showcased a remarkable voice that seemed to echo from a 1930’s gramophone.…
To say Laura Gibson could’ve stepped out of a sepia photograph circa 1880 is also to give to a fair indication of how her music sounds. There’s something curiously anachronistic about her musical sensibilities, a quality that permeates her third…