Ruth Moody will be releasing her debut album, The Garden, on the 16th January 2012 in the run up to her UK and Ireland tour. With pitch perfect vocals, a great mix of instrumentation and sweet melodies, The Garden sounds like it will be a thing of beauty.
Tracks include the piano and violin combination of Never Said Goodbye, which is a simple ode to loss, and the lilting Cold Outside, which has got some great hypnotic slide guitar overruling acoustic rhythms.
Though the lyrics are mostly lovelorn and lose their way every now and again, the overarching beauty of the tracks still holds.
Released on Red House Records, The Garden is Ruth Moody’s first solo release as she strikes out on her own from the Billboard-charting folk band, The Wailin’ Jennys, which she was a founding member.
The title for the album was inspired by a theme from Voltaire’s Candide; the idea that if everyone worked on their garden and made their own corner of the world beautiful, the world would be a better place. It’s a bit sad that such a brilliant idea, first published in 1759, can get sifted out of common understanding, but it’s pretty cool that Ruth Moody will bringing it back with style in 2012.
