Emily Barker

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Emily Barker is an award-winning singer-songwriter, best known as the writer and performer of the theme to the BBC’s hugely successful crime drama Wallander starring Kenneth Branagh. She has released music as a solo artist as well as with various bands and collaborations including The Red Clay Halo, Vena Portae, Marry Waterson and Applewood Road (with whom she released a remarkable album of original songs recorded live around a single microphone, dubbed “flawless” by The Sunday Times) and has written for film, including composing the soundtrack for Jake Gavin’s lauded debut feature Hector starring Peter Mullan and Keith Allen. New album A Dark Murmuration of Words was released via Thirty Tigers on 4th September 2020 to critical acclaim, hitting number 1 on the Official Americana Album chart in the UK. “an album of spare, striking beauty” Mojo ★★★★ “…a kind of Australian equivalent of PJ Harvey’s Let England Shake” UNCUT 8/10 “bold, direct, uncompromising” CLASH “irresistibly catchy…an album replete with nooks and crannies, light and shade” The Australian ★★★★★ “One of the most literate and probing folk albums of the year. I really love it.” Ann Powers, NPR Music