Bridget Hayden and The Apparitions new single 'Our Ship is Ready'

Bridget Hayden and The Apparitions
releases new single "Our Ship is Ready"
https://bridgethayden.bandcamp.com/track/our-ship-is-ready-2
"Bridget Hayden’s folk music is the kind that makes you stop and pay attention." The Quietus 

Recorded in the same sessions as her album 'Cold Blows the Rain' released in January on Basin Rock

Live video filmed in their hometown of Todmorden: https://youtu.be/V9mWILQbaT4

Bridget Hayden is an experimental musician, who invited the ghosts in for the classic folk songs that made up her stunning album, Cold Blows the Rain, one of the finest, distinctive and critically acclaimed records released this year. 

Taken from the same sessions but unable to physically fit on the vinyl/final album, today she releases a single 'Our Ship is Ready', along with a limited edition lino print (available from her bandcamp). It's printed from an original block made in 1984 by her dad Reg Hayden. Bridget explains her relationShip with the song itself:

"The first time I heard this was about ten years or so ago in my Mum's kitchen. It was one I'd never heard her sing until then and I couldn't believe she'd never played it to me before. I made her sing it over and over until I'd learnt it. I've since heard Margaret Barry's version of course. I don't know of any others, but I'm sure there are many. We couldn't squeeze it onto the vinyl, so it's coming out as a digital single."

Bridget Hayden & The Apparitions startled any of those who saw them at Green Man, End Of The Road and Supersonic festivals, there is an accompanying live video of 'Our Ship Is Ready'.

The new single and the songs that make up Cold Blows the Rain come wrapped in mist and coated with drizzle, those elements shaping the album as much as the voice and the instruments held within, as real but ambiguous as the ghosts that linger in the shadows. The sound of the dark valley floor in Todmorden, West Yorkshire where Bridget calls home.“The weather speaks the most eloquently about human loss,” Bridget says. “It’s good to feel enveloped by something so much vaster than ourselves. The rain and the tears all become one.” 

Praise for 'Cold Blows the Rain':

"Trad folk songs, hauntingly interpreted.... Hayden has pulled off one of the greatest renditions of them all." 9/10 Uncut 'Album of the Month'
"traditional songs as heavy as the sodden moors at midnight. They unfurl at a glacial pace, with analogue synths and delicate banjos buoying up Hayden’s deep, measured voice." The Guardian 'Folk Album of the Month'
"Bridget Hayden’s folk music is the kind that makes you stop and pay attention." The Quietus 
"the English and Irish folks songs in Cold Blows The Rain revel in newfound space: weatherbeaten, but with lungs filled with moorland air" The Wire
"Ominous drones, clanking banjos, filthy weather: a winning combo." **** MOJO
"It’s an album as distinct and vivid as its characters are dark and illusory... like a meeting of June Tabor, Laura Cannell and Alison Cotton." KLOF
"Hayden's voice floats over these ancient songs like a mist on the Yorkshire Moors and the result is an album of sinister, haunting romance." 4/5 The Times
"extraordinarily beautiful" Aquarium Drunkard

Purchase the album:
https://bridgethayden.bandcamp.com/album/cold-blows-the-rain
https://www.basinrock.co.uk/records/cold-blows-the-rain