SATURDAY’S SCOTTISH SONG : #410: ANNIE BOOTH

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A bio from the Last Night From Glasgow website:-

Annie Booth is an Edinburgh-based singer, songwriter and instrumentalist. With a keen ear for melody and movingly bittersweet compositions, she is a unique and fiercely emotive voice in the Scottish music scene, her songs woven with a subtle but exciting patchwork of styles and sounds.

Writing stories and poems from a young age, Booth moved to Edinburgh in 2013 for university – it was there she met her long-time friends and current band members. In 2015 she also joined prolific dark-folk rockers Mt. Doubt after being approached by frontman Leo Bargery, following a turn on their single ‘Soak’; this led to appearances at festivals such as T in the Park and Belladrum.

Labels Last Night From Glasgow and Scottish Fiction collaborated on releasing Annie’s affecting debut album ‘An Unforgiving Light‘ in late 2017 to much critical acclaim. The rock, folk and pop-inflected record was lauded as Roddy Hart’s Record of Note (BBC Radio Scotland), was featured in Vic Galloway’s Best Albums of 2017 and received praise from and frequent rotation by Jim Gellatly and Amazing Radio.

Since then Booth has released her EP Spectral, recorded in late 2018. She then collaborated with Chris McCrory as the band Slow Weather and released the EP Clean Living in 2020.
Most recently Booth released her second album Lazybody in 2021 which reached #5 Scottish Album Charts and #10 UK Vinyl Charts.

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Annie Booth has a very fine voice, one that I’ve grown increasingly fond of in recent years since hearing the Spectral EP back in 2019.  This is taken from that release

mp3: Annie Booth – Magic 8

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