Clara Mann - Wishbone DEXTER WANSEL Wyllie additionally acknowledges Keith Jarrett’s

Wyllie additionally acknowledges Keith Jarrett’s Arbour Zena

Writing for the dreamers and the bedroom dwellers

particularly on The City Was and Already Over

Across 25 years of singular work

and his usual taste for the Caribbean lightens things up

Clara Mann - Wishbone DEXTER WANSEL Wyllie additionally acknowledges Keith Jarrett’sClara Mann's luminous new album, Wishbone, is built on contrast; the brightest passages made legible by shadow, as Mann strove to picture a beautiful life and then to allow herself to want it, with absolute vulnerability. Leaning deliberately into the songwriting tradition, Mann reached for the rough edged, performance driven spirit of artists like Fiona Apple and Tom Waits, while keeping faith with an older lineage of plainspoken English balladry.