Letters I Haven't Written


Letters I Haven't Written, the seventh album by British singer-songwriter Gwyneth Herbert, was released on 12 October 2018. It was produced at Rockfield Studios, Monmouth and, like Herbert's previous album The Sea Cabinet, was crowdfunded. The songs on the album, all written by Herbert, have been described as "exquisitely crafted". On the subjects of "love, gratitude and protest", they are about the lost art of letterwriting. Reviewing the album for Jazzwise magazine, Peter Quinn said that "Letters I Haven't Written is by turns moving, thrilling and entrancing".
Music from the album was previewed in a touring show which Herbert and her band performed at UK venues in 2017.

Production

The album cover features artwork by Julia Andrews-Clifford and a photograph of Herbert by Ian Wallman.

Track listing

  1. "Fishing for Squirrels"
  2. "More of Everything"
  3. "Reading My Breath Away"
  4. "From Here to Over There"
  5. "Frosting on Your Windows"
  6. "You're Welcome"
  7. "Until the Dust Settles"
  8. "Tick Tock TICK"
  9. "Don't Call Me That"
  10. "And You Are..."
  11. "Not the Kind of Girl"

Songs

Herbert wrote "Not the Kind of Girl" for a screening, in 2010, of Marion Davies’ 1928 silent comedy classic The Patsy, at BFI Southbank's Birds Eye View Film Festival. Ian Shaw covered the song on his 2017 album Shine Sister Shine.
"You're Welcome" was inspired by the journey of the Windrush generation, the early migrants from the Caribbean who settled in the UK. It was released as a single in September 2018.

Personnel