Recalling the sublime fingerpicked purity of folk singers-past such as Bridget St John and Linda Perhacs, estimable Melbourne folk artist Lucy Roleff releases her debut album This Paradise in 2016. This album is presented on standard black vinyl. The album was recorded with Tony Dupé (Holly Throsby, Grand Salvo) at his home studio in a hundred year-old church in South Gippsland; Tony and his partner Claire Deak adding some subtle strings, bowed glockenspiel, pump organ and cymbal washes to Lucy’s deft nylon string, harp and woodwind compositions. ‘Every Time’, the album's second single, was composed on a 20 euro tobacco-stained junk store acoustic guitar that Lucy acquired while residing in Berlin a few years back. Sombre and enchanting, the song is a meditation on moments of quiet domestic solitude and others of turmoil brought on by a vagabond lover who comes and goes, stirring everything in their wake.
