Decorated with an array of four star reviews singer-songwriter and musician Brona McVittie is quietly steering traditional folk into the 21st century with her recently launched debut solo album We Are the Wildlife — a deep reflection on the interconnectedness of things natural and manmade, an album of duality and dichotomy shaped as much by natural sonic patterning as by human patterns of behaviour — inspired by rural and urban scapes alike.
“Electronic music, used judiciously, can serve the folk song well, particularly when it’s teasing out subtler textures in the tradition, noticing the smaller stitches in its seams. This is certainly true of the work of Brona McVittie” says The Guardian who describes her music as “Beautifully embroidered folk with sweetness and bite”
“McVittie takes her inspiration from W.B. Yeats’s idea of a kind of Celtic phantasmagoria which can be felt but remains essentially ineffable, and has recorded a timeless mix of traditional and original material” ★★★★☆ MOJO
“Heavenly debut…boldly experimental…Simply gorgeous” 8/10 Uncut Magazine
“A rare, and rarefied, beauty” ★★★★☆ The Independent