The Fragile (O'Hooley & Tidow album)
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| Studio album by O'Hooley & Tidow | ||||
| Released | 9 February 2012 (UK) | |||
| Recorded | Golcar, Huddersfield,West Yorkshire | |||
| Genre | Folk; chamber folk | |||
| Length | 50:48 | |||
| Label | No Masters (NMCD39) | |||
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| The Guardian |   |
The Fragile, the second album by the folk music duo O'Hooley & Tidow, was released on 9 February 2012 on the No Masters label. It received a four-starred review in The Guardian. The album's title is derived from the words of one of its songs, "Mein Deern", about the dying hours of Heidi Tidow's German grandmother. The album features guest performances by Andy Cutting, Jackie Oates, Jude Abbott, Cormac Byrne, Anna Esslemont, Sam Pegg, The Solo Players and London's Diversity Choir.
According to O'Hooley & Tidow, all the songs on The Fragile are linked by the common theme of vulnerability.
A single from the album, "The Last Polar Bear", was released in November 2011. The track was reissued on 1 November 2012 as a double single with "Gentleman Jack". This is a song, also from the album, about Anne Lister, an early 19th-century Yorkshire lesbian gentlewoman.
The words of "Little Boy Blue" are from a 19th-century poem by the American writer, Eugene Field. The poem, about a young boy and his toys, suggests that he dies and is taken by angels and his toys wait for him to return.
"She Lived Beside the Anner" is a traditional folk song from Tipperary, Ireland.
In a four-starred review, Robin Denselow of The Guardian described The Fragile as an "intriguing, ambitious set" and said that the album's cover version of Massive Attack's "Teardrop" was "an exquisite reworking".Guardian music critic Jude Rogers voted it as one of the best tracks of 2012.
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