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Review: English singer-songwriter Anna B Savage wrote this album as "a love letter to a man and to Ireland." The City Slang-signee recently relocated from Britain to Donegal, Ireland, having initially made the jump across the Irish sea to study a master's in music in Dublin. The Irish connection is palpable throughout, with song titles 'Donegal' and 'Mo Cheol Thu'' a case in point and her collaborators rooted in the underground music community there. Producer John 'Spud' Murphy is famed for his Lankum connection. And credited musicians from the Emerald Isle include Anna Mieke, Kate Ellis, Caimin Gilmore from Crash Ensemble and Cormac MacDiarmada from Lankum. Anna Mieke is a featured guest vocalist on the beautiful 'Agnes'. It's a song that blends of mind-bogglingly imaginative instrumentation and arrangement with stark, beautiful folk. Savage has ventured into highly ambitious terrain on this album and has delivered a commanding performance in doing so.