Emily Barker

Bafta and Ivor Novello award winning singer-songwriter Emily Barker and her band The Red Clay Halo are set to release their much-anticipated fourth studio album, `Dear River' on the 8 July 2013 on Linn Records and are touring the UK in October and November.

UK based but hailing from Bridgetown, Western Australia, Emily Barker is a compelling singer-songwriter, who with her band The Red Clay Halo blends classical, rock, country and folk influences to stunning effect. Having released three critically acclaimed albums, played a string of sold-out UK dates, performed with Frank Turner at the London 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony and written the award winning themes to hit BBC dramas Wallander and The Shadow Line, the `Dear River' album is a major landmark that will surely take Emily to a whole new level.

**Dear River'** was produced by Calum Malcolm (Blue Nile) and marks a significant sonic move forward from the previous three albums, highlighting Barker's agile vocal blend of strength and fragility, while lyrically exploring the meaning of Home and its related tangents of exile, displacement, and family. Blending her own story into the wider joys and sorrows gleaned from her rigorous researches into others' experiences of travel and emigration, Emily has emerged with a compelling song cycle that makes herDear River' album an unmistakable watershed in her rapidly burgeoning career.

`A gorgeous, sincere voice that grabs you and won't let go' - The Sun SFTW

`Stripped free of studio frippery and all the better for its carefree simplicity' - four stars* - Q Magazine

This is a dream of a record. A new Marling, then? No, Barker offers something else..."- BBC Music editors choice (Feb 2011)

Hailing from Bridgetown, Western Australia, Emily Barker is a compelling songwriter with a gift for weaving melody and words. Her talent is perfectly complemented by the magnificent arrangements of her band The Red Clay Halo, whose rootsy ensemble playing underpins Barkers agile vocal blend of strength and fragility

The achingly beautiful Pause from the album is the theme tune to BBC 2s gripping TV drama TheShadowLine starring Christopher Ecclestone. And Nostalgia, from Emilys second album Despite The Snow, is the Bafta-winning theme tune to BBC1s Wallander, starring Kenneth Branagh.