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With her 2017 album, Preservation, Port Chalmers-based Reid – who has been nominated for a Tui award for best folk album, the Taite Music Prize and an Apra Silver Scroll at home – confirmed her place in the international firmament, with acclaim in the Guardian, Uncut, Pitchfork and Mojo. She has been credited for “saving folk music” by Billboard.
Suffice to say, expectation was high for her follow-up Out of My Province, Recorded with & for MATTHEW WHITE’s SPACEBOMB Records & their house band, the album bristles with confidence, with a stronger vocal delivery than on past albums, astute arrangements for strings and horns and 10 discrete, memorable songs.
Reid’s melodies remain elegantly poised, her intelligent lyrics are delivered with clarity and the songs are acoustic-framed and reflective. But some also come as chiming folk rock, like the radio-friendly Oh Canada in which she sings “all the travelling I have done, I don’t know what I’m looking for”. References to JONI MITCHELL abound in reviews & whilst few could ever claim to equal Joni, there are inspired similarities though still very much her own voice.
