Katie Spencer - What Love Is [CD]

Cat. no: LR-002CD
Format: CD
Barcode: 0880992160926
Release Date: 03 Oct 2025
Genre: Folk

Her writing, and most notably her guitar playing stems from a time when the steel-stringed instrument was truly fnding its voice. Artists like Joni Mitchell, Judee Sill, Julie Byrne and perhaps most evidently Michael Chapman, weave into her sound. Katie absorbs these infuences into her songwriting and with her distinctive deep vibrato and crystal-clear guitar style, she makes the music inimitably her own. Katie will release her third album What Love Is in October 2025; an intimate collection of ten brand-new songs produced by Matt Ingram (Laura Marling, The Staves). 

Recorded in London's Urchin Studios and featuring prominent players Giacomo Smith (clarinet), Max Clilverd (pedal steel), Tom Mason (double bass) and Matt Ingram (drums, synth). What Love Is evokes the spirit of Joni Mitchell's fnest later works, always honouring without emulating. Lyrically mature and at times pastoral; the album is melodically sophisticated and unfinchingly honest. She moves effortlessly from wide- open jazz- tinged soundscapes, infuenced by Pharoah Sanders and John Abercrombie, through to the folk-baroque fngerpicking style that her fans admire her for. Her singing is powerful yet warm, true and pristine in delivery. The musicianship throughout the record feels liberated by Katie's innovation and confdence, and the result is a master-class of inspired and beautiful-sounding craftmanship

CD Tracks: What Love Is / Come Back And Find Me / Forget Me Not / Home / Back To The Brightness Above / Stranger / It Was Then That I Knew Love / Cold Stone / Goodbye / Carry It All