The Amber Gatherers
Album • Jan 23 / 2007 • 11 songs, 41m 30s
Contemporary Folk
Singer-Songwriter
Noteable
Paradoxically both ancient and modern, Alasdair's third album returns us to the world of Roberts-penned songs.
5.9
/ 10
Scottish folk-rock singer-songwriter addresses human frailty and manmade failure, frequently coupling complex internal and external rhymes and commanding expansive mythological and geographical vocabularies.
On 2005's No Earthly Man, Scottish singer/songwriter Alasdair Roberts offered up eight traditional ballads with minimal accompaniment.
8
/ 10
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