Taste Test: Tanya Gallagher treks across the ‘Barren Land’
The Americana firebrand offers up a truly impressive performance on a new song.
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There’s a near unquenchable ache that comes from a heartbreak. You can never prepare yourself for the ruins through which you’ll have to trek, but it’s as vital to the endgame as anything else. Broiled to perfection, Americana singer-songwriter Tanya Gallagher‘s “Barren Land” mines the rubble of her own sorrow, and her words shred what is left. “I’ll be damned if this tears me apart,” she sends up one final campfire smoke signal before it all comes crashing down. “There’s no fight left,” she also confides, whispering right into the listener’s ear. Her vocal crackles, too, and seems to exhume the most tragic of human states. Even so, there’s something altogether soothing about her story, as if a warning to all those who come after not to dare make the same mistakes. Gallagher has a tremendous presence about her, and it’s just thrilling.
“Barren Land” samples her new EP, One Hand on My Heart, out everywhere tomorrow (August 6).
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