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A Scottish singer-songwriter with a voice that is equal parts blues, folk and beautiful, Kathryn Joseph has just released her sublime debut album ‘Bones You Have Thrown Me and Blood I've Spilled’. Armed with a small piano and a percussive maestro (Marcus Mackay), she showcased the record in a jaw-dropping live session for 主播大秀 Introducing.

On record, Kathryn's songs are exquisite and intimate, and her live set followed suit. She opened with 'The Bird'. It's a fragile airborne aria that left all of us in the studio reeling. Her work has a vintage, timeless feel – you might align it with Joanna Newsom, Antony Hegarty or Karen Dalton – but it is also completely unique.

If her album title reads like a poem, or indeed a tale in itself, then the songs within it scan like chapters – from opener 'The Bird', through (among others) 'The Blood', 'The Want', 'The Bone', 'The Crow', 'The Mouth' and 'The Weary'. And then there's a shadowy torch-song, 'The Outtakes', which Kathryn performed to more quiet rapture, after an interview which touched on her musical relationship with drummer / producer Marcus, her voice, and her piano, and her early days gigging in Aberdeen (you can watch part of that interview below).

She also sang the praises of Hits The Fan records – the label which issued Frightened Rabbit's debut album, Sing The Greys – and which was resurrected especially to release Bones You Have Thrown Me and Blood I've Spilled.

Before a suitably gorgeous pass-it-on track in Low's 'Murderer' (there is kinship between Kathryn's muted drama and that of the Minnesota three), we were treated to. If the best covers allow us to hear a song anew – if they cast new depths, and magic, and light – then Kathryn's version did all that. This might have been the first we've heard from her, but it won't be the last.

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