Taste Test: Holly Abraham nurses burned edges with ‘Refined in Fire’
Bristol folk singer remembers the past and its harrowing troubles with her second ever single.
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It’s so terribly easy to be consumed by ruin, its ravenous beak chomping into our skin and ripping out chunks of grisly flesh and bone. But if we retaliate, we can survive. Bristol’s enchanting folk singer and songwriter Holly Abraham has endured her fair share of troubles, those that are unspeakable but have undeniably toughened her will to live. Her second single, “Refined in Fire” is as charcoal-colored puffs of cloud curling ceremoniously around her body and nearly suffocating it. She’s a phoenix plucking through the ash, however, shaking off every ounce of soot for a majestic flight right into the sun’s penetrating stare. “I don’t know how to take any more heat / But I’ll choose to stay as you stripe away these pieces,” she mutters to herself, gliding through the flames as a way to truly rediscover her potential. Her voice is heavenly yet wounded, a showcase of her patchwork of bruises and scrapes, and through airy production, she assists in healing our own, too.
“Refined in Fire” follows on the heels of her debut entry, the equally-magnificent “Shore.”
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