I was the city child sent to spend his summers with a grandmother and aunt on a country farm. I did not say it but feared the outcome might be a shift too far, a distortion of the haunting qualities that are a characteristic of the Lost Brothers’ sound. Halfway Towards a Healing by The Lost Brothers is "a sequence of beautifully crafted reflective songs that cruise along in an admirably unshowy way". The other added flavour is the input of Glen Hansard with whom three of the new songs were co-written ( most Lost Brothers material is written by Leech and McCausland ). But I hardly imagined back then that the Royal County would one day produce its own artist who seems to fit perfectly among my first commonwealth of songsters.

Source: The Irish Times February 12, 2018 00:00 UTC