Cargo Records

Songs For Edna

Bat for Lashes multi-instrumentalist Caroline Weeks is to release her debut solo album on Manimal Vinyl, the same Los Angeles based label for whom she covered The Drowning Man for their Cure tribute album. Available across CD, vinyl and download formats, the album Songs for Edna, features 9 tracks of stark minimal folk all with lyrics borrowed from the late American poet, Edna St. Vincent-Millay.

Caroline songs are full of insight, sensitivity and intimacy and do justice to a poet whose love sonnets are undeservedly slighted in our day. For info on Edna: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edna_St_Vincent_Millay. Having toured the states with Lewis & Clarke and performed across the UK, Caroline has gained cult status as a solo artist since stepping out from Bat for Lashes, for whom she will be opening on several dates of their forthcoming April UK Tour (see below for live dates).

Her music has been compared to everyone from Karen Dalton to Sandy Denny. Having been a full time member of Bat For Lashes for over three years, Caroline previously performed under the name Ginger Lee, but having discovered (via a somewhat shocking Google search) that a young American lady who appears to relish having her photo taken in the nude shared this particular moniker, Caroline has now reverted to using her family name.

Track Listing

1. See Where Capella and Her Golden Kids
2. What Lips My Lips Have Kissed
3. Wild Swans
4. Renascence
5. Oh, Sleep Forever In The Latmian Cave
6. The Return
7. Pity Me Not
8. I Shall Go Back
9. Elegy