VanWyck - One Song a Week (Part One) (2015)

VanWyck is Christine Oele, a Dutch-born, New-Zealand bred singer and songwriter based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Her dark folk sound, warm voice and lyrical songwriting has drawn comparisons with Nathalie Merchant, Leonard Cohen and Laura Marling.

After some years in the band Nevada Drive, Oele released her début EP as VanWyck, the Tanned Legs EP (2015) to international acclaim from English, French and American blogs. She then started a new project called 'One Song a Week', writing and releasing a new song (almost) every week. Some of those releases were studio recordings with a full band, some came from live shows, some were shot as videos and others were sung in kitchens.

The result of that year is An Average Woman (2018), Van Wyck's first full-length album, released in Janurary 2018. She’s accompanied by the award-winning bass player and arranger, Reyer Zwart, as well as singer Marjolein van der Klauw, whose silvery voice is the perfect counterbalance to VanWyck’s own darker tones. It is, as one reviewer wrote, "music that coaxes your demons asleep, then cradles them away, with love, in light, from off your shoulders, from off your back."

Tracklist:
01. Walk on Water (5:16)
02. Keep Going (5:06)
03. Lead Me On (4:54)
04. Keep Going - Walk on Water (3:46)
05. I Will Carry You (3:46)
06. Bring Me to an Island (2:27)
07. That Fatal One (2:38)
08. Light Your Fires (2:42)
09. We Do Not Speak (4:10)
10. By the Oak Tree (4:12)