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bronze leaf
12+ albums
indieHome collectionfemale vocalistfolkcalm
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"haunting, skilfully crafted ... She’s a stand-out in the genre with her boundary-pushing guitar playing, emotionally-charged lyrics, and beautiful vocal melodies. Go see her." - SEE Magazine Local Bands to Watch 2009 "gorgeously melancholic and somewhat ephemeral, like a lover's last words hanging in the air." - VUE Weekly Bronze Leaf is born of the space between intimacy and distance. Her ghostly instrumental evocations shroud listeners in an unrepentant nostalgia, one that faces head-on our memories of fractured kinship and emotional epiphany. With a lyrical sensibility that favours showing over telling, she is well equipped to melt many an icy heart. Recorded in a basement in the world’s most northernly major city (Edmonton, Alberta), Bronze Leaf’s debut full-length album Bread Crumbs (Champion City Records) captures a rare, transient warmth. Bronze Leaf’s dialogue with memory and melancholy takes its elusive form in an ethereal space-time mapped by Champion City recording deity Eric Cheng (Spreepark, Portraits). Somewhere on the horizon between singer-songwriter and avant-folk, Bread Crumbs weaves paths of contradiction; haunted but hopeful, its strength is its subtlety. Armed with guitars, delay pedals, and looping mechanicals, Bronze Leaf, a.k.a. Amy Macdonald, arose in Edmonton in 2008 to join a new wave of psychedelic folk artists transcending Canada into the bewildering nether-zone of fringe success. Not one to specialize, in 2009 Amy began navigating the uncomf