Wooff, Toria: Toria Wooff (Vinyl LP)

English folk is about to enter a beguiling new era; tales of the beautifully strange. Singing stories woven of love, loss, hope, and womanhood, Toria Wooff’s self-titled debut album offers an antidote to our demons; a contemporary twist on the Anglo folk which whisper a word to the wise; never judge a book by its cover.

Like tales of the unexpected lingering in the dewy mist of the Lancashire moors surrounding her hometown, Toria Wooff is anything but linear. With each song written independently of the other, and yet, working together like a compendium of short stories in a well-thumbed cloth-bound novel, hope lies at its heart and buckles under emotional weight like the hefty influence of the gothic literature, ghost stories of English medieval scholar M.R. James, and the British Library’s Tales of the Weird adorning her bookshelves. The artwork even sees Toria herself, lounging across a church pew in the haunted 15th Century Medieval Mansion, Stanley Palace.

1. The Plough (Intro)
2. Lefty's Motel Room 
   
3. Song For A
   
4. Sweet William
   
5. Mountains
   
6. The Flood
   
7. Author Song
   
8. The Waltz of Winter Hey 
   
9. That's What Falling In Love Will Do
   
10. See Things Through
    
11. Estuaries