Bandcamp [Release date 29.09.25]

Now I’m going to contradict myself in this opening paragraph. This album, Light, is the most original and unique collection of songs I have heard for a long long time. And here is the contradiction, it reminded me on first listening of Enya, except this is organic Enya, devoid of all the lush synth arrangements. And Anna’s voice reminds me in places of Dolores O’Riordan of The Cranberries in its inflection and nuance.

Anna Ling lives in a yurt at the side of the River Dart in Devon which is where she wrote and recorded these songs. Has an album ever been recorded in a yurt before? I’ve never heard of one. Where does she get the electricity from?

Anna also produced it herself, and as this is her debut album I would say she has a natural ability at producing, or at least producing the sound she wants. It works so well. Its instruments shimmering in and out the basic track, like the banjo on Nothing Is Lost, Clarinet on Sun To The Bird, trumpet on The Moon, and flute, or is it violin on Promise Of Light, it’s so delicate and ethereal it’s hard to discern, but it doesn’t matter, it all blends into the brilliant soundscape she creates.

Anna owns the way she uses the voices. Although I mentioned Delores earlier on, Anna also has her own way of phrasing and delivery. Sometimes you can’t actually hear what she is saying, but again it doesn’t seem to matter, you get the vibe she is putting across. Sometimes I don’t think she is speaking in English, or any other known language as on Shun, but she uses the vocals as an instrument in her palette of sounds.

The album features amongst others Briony Greenhill, Boci, Isis Wolf-Light, Misha Mullov-Abbado and Joshua Green. But judging by the long list of people on the insert I would imagine there are other musical contributors.

If Anna could break into the impossibly hard to break into, world of sync I think she could have a really lucrative career ahead providing music for TV, Film and Commercials.

BBC Radio 3, Jazz FM and BBC Introducing have already picked up on the genius of Anna Ling’s songs and sounds, and I would say that is just the start of a long and successful career, in the music business, if she wants that. Maybe she is just content to write and produce songs from her yurt, away from the madding crowd, who knows. *****

Review by Andy Sharrocks

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