 Mary Hampton - Folly
CD, 2011
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1. The Man Behind The Rhododendron
2. Benjamin Bowmaneer
3. Forget-me-not
4. Kiss V
5. Hoax And Benison
6. Honey In The Rock
7. No 32
8. Lullaby For The Beleaguered
**** The Times
"Folly is very English, very unusual and proof that if you want to make art, you just have to ignore debilitating forces and get on with it."
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 Mary Hampton - My Mother's Children
CD, 2008
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1. Because You're Young
2. Free Grace
3. Honey
4. Concerning A Frozen Sparrow
5. Ballad Of The Talking Dog
6. Pygmalion
7. Meanwhile...
8. The Bell They Gave You
9. Island
10. Exeunt
"terrifying and gorgeous....unusual and strong.....epic and tiny... 'My Mother's Children' is an album I know I am going to love for life." (Eliza Carthy, fRoots April 08)
"songs, which recline with shimmering sensuality in various shady cloaks of weirdness...fragility, desolation and humour...scurrying around Dartmoor under cover of darkness." (Colin Irwin, Telegraph, 26/04/08)
"her bizarre flights of fancy are the dreams of children, far more unsettling for an adult.....evoking Eliot’s Wasteland in it’s beautiful bleakness". (Wyl Menmuir, Fly, June 08)
"coffee-table-shattering purity...these are songs of unnerving delicacy, elemental and acoustic simplicity...potent and enchanting" **** (David Stubbs, Uncut, August 08)
"brilliant..peculiar...how great the unexpected on this album makes me feel" (Kate Lewis, Acoustic Magazine, August 08)
"...a true original.....Hampton's vocal lines are not so much melodies as weather systems" ***** (Clare O'Brien, Subba-Culture, May 08)
Songlines **** (June 08)
Mojo, Folk album of the month **** (August 08)
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 Mary Hampton - Book One
CDr, 2005
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1. Silver Dagger
2. Love Me Little
3. The Gardener
4. Let No Man Steal Your Thyme
5. Eros
6. Fare Thee Well
"At a time when it sometimes seems that one cannot move for new folk, free folk, freak folk, weird folk, outsider folk and goodness knows what else, it's an unqualified joy to discover a collection of songs that sit proudly and uncomplicatedly within the folk tradition. And yet, while Mary Hampton's debut CD ... certainly derives much of its appeal from its appropriation of centuries-old folk idioms, it is certainly no museum piece. Its unearthly radiance and undercurrents of desolate modernity transform it into a vital and contemporary living document" (Sound Projector, issue 15, 2007) .
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Mary Hampton - Book Two