Carthy, Eliza & The Restitution: Frenemies

"Dismissed by your mates, and ignored by loving spouse?

Are you slave to many goblins, and can't escape the house?" - Welcome to Frenemies, the new original album from Eliza Carthy and the Restitution.

Eiza Carthy MBE has been the multi award-winning irreverent, passionate, difficult face of English folk punk and traditional music since the early 1990s. Born into a formidable musical dynasty, her mother Norma was one of The Watersons and her father Martin Carthy is a hugely influential singer and guitarist, the incredible range of traditional and contemporary musicians who were part of the extended Waterson/Carthy world helped her develop her own unique approach to music.

She has headed the grit, beauty, humour, heartbreak, poetry and dance of the form for over thirty years, and is here with another of her trademark fulcrum albums.

Here she represents the loudest, loneliest women in love, in her third era and reflecting on motherhood, betrayal and forgiveness. Fury about the state of the world, support for the LGBTQIA+ community, laughing and letting the Gen X hang out, with her chief co-writer and co-producer Ben Seal (Martin Carthy & ???), and her virtuoso long-term band.

Fifteen tracks, over an hour of music. Welcome back to the album as art form.