All of This Is Chance – Lisa ONeill VINYL

Following 5 BBC Folk Awards nominations and a designation by the Guardian as Folk Album of the Year in 2019, it is fair to say that LisaONeill is one of the most evocative songwriters in contemporary Irish music today. Fresh off 2018s collectionHeard a Long Song Gonefor the River Lea imprint,The WrenEP in 2019 and an adaptation of Bob Dylans “All the Tired Horses” for the final scene of epic TV drama Peaky Blinders, ONeill now returns with her latest album, and first for the Rough Trade label, the beautiful, resonantAll Of This Is Chance.

A raconteur in the truest sense of the word, every story starts somewhere and ONeill starts this extraordinary collection here on earth, on Irish soil, hands in the land. The album is full of both orchestral masterpieces like the ambitious and cinematic “Old Note”,/the title track All OfThis Is Chance, inspired by the great Monaghan writer Patrick Kavanagh’s prescient meditation on The Great Hunger as well as stirring meditations on nature, birds, berries, bees, and blood that ring out over a clacking banjo, dusting and devastating all those in its wake.

All Of This Is Chancetakes Lisas inimitable voice to greater heights, or depths, depending on which way you look at it.

Track-listing:

1. All Of This Is Chance
2. Silver Seed
3. Old Note
4. Birdy From Another Realm
5. The Globe
6. If I Was A Painter
7. Whisht, The Wild Workings Of The Mind
8. Goodnight World