Isobel Campbell - Bow to Love (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

An inquisitive, complex and fully matured album from an artist who has travelled long and far. Campbell was first noticed as a teenage founder member of Belle & Sebastian, before she released two dream-folk solo albums under the name The Gentle Waves and left B&S in 2002. Two records under her own name followed, leading to a union with late rock-carved growler Mark Lanegan for three albums of gravel’n’honey Americana duets, where Lanegan would stand aside while Campbell called the creative shots.

A move to LA and a near-decade of label troubles followed; the latter ended with There Is No Other in 2020 before – as Campbell puts it – “the world went down the crapper” for the pandemic. And on Bow to Love, suggests Campbell, the world’s ongoing troubles are clear. “Anyone with two eyes, a brain and a heart can see that people are struggling, and I suppose I have a lot of thoughts about that. And it’s this album.”

An album that also, says Campbell, has thoughts about how the future remains unwritten. “I feel like we’re living in some kind of dystopia, but I think it’s up to us what we buy into and what we react to. We do have a choice, even if sometimes we think we don’t. You can still see acts of great kindness. In all the bleakness, that’s what I hang on to. We are co-creators. Where we go next is up to us.” Mounted with clear-sighted artistry and care, Bow to Love is a light in the dark of uncertain times.

TRACKLIST

1. Isobel Campbell - Everything Falls Apart
2. Isobel Campbell - Do or Die
3. Isobel Campbell - Spider to the Fly
4. Isobel Campbell - Second Guessing
5. Isobel Campbell - Bow to Love
6. Isobel Campbell - 4316
7. Isobel Campbell - Dopamine
8. Isobel Campbell - Keep Calm, Carry On
9. Isobel Campbell - Saturday's Son
10. Isobel Campbell - Take This Poison
11. Isobel Campbell - Om Shanti Om
12. Isobel Campbell - You
13. Isobel Campbell - Why Worry



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