Ellie ONeill - Time of Fallow

New album "Time of Fallow" available on vinyl and cd.

There is no singular epiphany on Ellie ONeills gorgeous debut Time of Fallow. Instead, there is an archive of memories and dreamstuff, an ongoing negotiation between what must be kept alive and what must be allowed to die peacefully. On it, ONeill becomes both voyeur and surveyor of her own life, tending to memory with care, distance, and devotion.

ONeills music moves like the churn of a river. Falling down into little rivulets, clogging and unclogging, stones locking then unlocking the river flow. It flows clear and luminous, with a grace that is never strained, with a richness that is never excessive. Romance and grief coexist uneasily, sediment and shimmer braided together.

The first song ONeill wrote for what became Time of Fallow emerged while she was still an undergraduate, immersed in an English degree and writing her thesis on Nightwood and the queer temporality of the mod