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Sorrel Nation Artist:Sorrel Nation
Album: Lost En Route
Label: Self Released
Tracks: 9
Website: https://www.sorrelnationmusic.com/

2024 has been a life changing year for Sorrel Nation, yes that is her real name. Having been tipped in her earlier years by the late, great Jackie Leven, Sorrel headed off into the troubadour life style touring the UK and Europe in a van learning her craft and an absolute freedom in her music.

Perhaps that would have remained the way of things before the world changed in 2020 and Sorrel found herself with time on her hands and the ability to travel somewhat curtailed. That changed her relationship with music.and a more focused design emerged.

I was lucky enough to discover Sorrel earlier this year through her EP "Thirty Summers Live" as well as catching her a number of times at festivals during that self same summer, including an appearance at the Brian McNeill Session at Cambridge Folk Festival.

"Lost En Route" is Nation's debut album having previously stuck to EP's and singles. Should also mention that there is a vinyl version to come in the new year, well March, do keep an eye out for it.

When I reviewed the EP earlier in the year, I reference Joni Mitchell, having heard the album, let me also add Stevie Nicks and Kate Bush to that name. You'll notice that both additions also had peak periods in the late seventies, early eighties, that is not a coincidence. Had Sorrel Nation been born for those years I feel that her name would stand alongside all three, not as an influence, but as a contemporary. We are however forty years on and whilst the comparisons are definitely festy as influences they are woven into something that is exclusively Sorrel.

You only have to hear the delicate strength of "Egg Shells" to understand that there is a vulnerability that drifts into her music, but it's also one that's counterpointed by more up-tempo songs that on a surface level feel a little more frivolous, listen that bit more deeply and you'll find a real songwriting talent hiding in the lighter frivolity.

"Lost En Route" is not a pastiche of that seventies aor rather it takes the sound and adds a twenty twenties interpretation, ensuring that it remains highly relevant. More importantly, even though this is a studio album with multiple instruments, you can pick up that they have been developed troubadour style, capable of standing out with just a guitar and voice behind them. Sorrel Nation is a name to be taken very seriously.

Neil King

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