The Breath - Let it Calm You Down (Acoustic) (2019) [Hi-Res]

The Breath's second album Let The Cards Fall is out now. Following their 2016 debut Carry Your Kin, it was recorded and mixed at Real World Studios in during the Winter of 2017/18.

The album is bewitching collection of songs that journeys from lush, beguiling storytelling to uplifting, punch-the-air anthems. Allowed to mature and breathe without losing the widescreen, multi-textured kaleidoscope of sound that marked their debut, Let the Cards Fall refines The Breath‘s unique Manchester take on alt-folk.

Read Neil McFadyen’s review of the album on Folk Radio UK.

The band was formed on the hotbed of Manchester’s live music scene, and merges a range of music influences, including jazz and Irish folk. Singer Ríoghnach Connolly and guitarist/ producer Stuart McCallum talk about the process of writing and recording the new album in a series of video clips on our YouTube channel.

Several of the songs on Let The Cards Fall had their beginnings at one of the band’s regular gigs in Manchester, including ‘Let It Calm You Down’, which comes from a totally improvised moment one night during a set at Matt and Phred’s Jazz Club that they just happened to be recording. Ríoghnach’s lyrics address ‘my soul mate in the crowd, the only bastard that can calm me.’ In the video clip below, Ríoghnach and Stuart look back on that night.

Tracklist:
01. The Breath - Let It Calm You Down
02. The Breath - No You Keep It
03. The Breath - Only Stories