Music has long been an outlet for emotional pain, self examination or working-stuff-out and in Oxford at least Tamara Parsons-Baker has few equals at doing all those in song form.

Music has long been an outlet for emotional pain, self examination or working-stuff-out and in Oxford at least Tamara Parsons-Baker has few equals at doing all those in song form.

Tamara’s musical output continues to be a triumph: often bleak, always beautiful songs full of emotional honesty that continue to mark her out as a genuine star to rank alongside the very best Oxford has to offer.

Sung with a voice as hard and pure as cut diamond. A gem and no mistake.

If Covid has deprived us of last year’s chart toppers Death of the Maiden this year, it’s given us bandleader Tamara’s solo songs.

What a voice and, above all, what sound to give to our thoughts that wander in this foreign space

Death of the Maiden are one of the most striking and essential bands in Oxford right now

Something so simple shouldn’t be so powerful. Musically, it’s a piece of magic.

ATP’s inclusive, diverse bill and “no-asshat” door policy are welcome indeed

The album can be best described as a mosaic of female influence

a band whose unique vision makes them one of the most intense and yet most uplifting musical experiences around

Safe to say that this track is sublimely unique!

Parsons-Baker, meanwhile, is like an enchantress with her whispery, hollow voice

Her voice is, at times, such an astonishing instrument in its own right