Name: A Dark Murmuration of Words
Brand: Emily Barker

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

ES158LP

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Colour

black

Colour details

Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: Yes

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2020-09-04

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

The Orchard

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

5065001118630

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

ES158LPG

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green

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Rough Trade Exclusive: Yes

Extended format: Yes

5065001118678

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1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: Yes / Signed copies: No / green

ES158CDX

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Download code: No

Deluxe CD. Casebound Book with 24 Inner Pages.

5065001118623

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1 / CD / Extended format: Yes / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

ES158CD

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Standard CD. Remus Gatefold, with 12 Page Booklet.

5065001118616

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Emily Barker

Genre GB

Folk

Label GB

Everyone Sang

Albums of the Year 2020

A Dark Murmuration of Words contends with a modern era built on racial and gender inequality, poverty and slavery, environmental exploitation and the climate crisis, finding them all connected by the dark shadow of patriarchy, pursuits of power, and the suppression of history. Referencing Emily Dickinson’s assertion that “If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves,” Barker draws connections between the familial, the local, and the global: a mother sings to her unborn child, asking for its forgiveness on Strange Weather, Where Have The Sparrows Gone? looks outside an apartment window and imagines a post-apocalyptic birdless London, and a monument to a Confederate general comes alive for a “how-I-got-away-with-it” confession on Machine. Throughout A Dark Murmuration of Words, all of our choices, our unspoken prejudices, our carelessness, connect us to the whole, but becoming aware and honest on a local, personal scale, can begin to effect change, allow for healing, and tease out beauty from chaos.

A Dark Murmuration of Words

Music GB