Growing up in Western Australia but based in the UK, the folk influenced songwriter has already released three critical acclaimed albums. Loose, hazy songwriting with an acoustic touch, Barker’s music has taken her to some unexpected places. Signed to Linn Records, Emily Barker has teamed up with the Red Clay Halo to work on her new album. Dear River was produced by Calum Malcolm (The Blue Nile) and marks a significant sonic move for ward from the previous three albums, highlighting Emily’s agile vocal blend of strength and fragility, while lyrically exploring the meaning of home and its related tangents of exile, displacement, and family. Blending her own story into the wider joys and sorrows gleaned from her rigorous researches into others’ experiences of travel and emigration, Emily has emerged with a compelling song cycle that makes Dear River an unmistakable watershed in a rapidly burgeoning career.