‘Keep My Feet Dry’ expands upon The Lost Trades’ style of folk-tinged storytelling and serves as a preview of their upcoming album.
The Lost Trades – Keep My Feet Dry
After their old-school rural-sounding single Daffodils, released in April, Wiltshire-based folk trio The Lost Trades is back with a lush bittersweet ballad. Their new single Keep My Feet Dry is a grief-laden lament which takes a lowkey approach in both vocals and instrumentation. It continues the band’s taste for choir-like storytelling adorned by heart-warming stripped-down folk melodies, albeit this time with more of a pop tinge to it.
The song is carried by Tasmin Quin’s soothing lullaby-like voice as the boys (Jamie R Hawkins and Phil Cooper) back her up with their harmonies and acoustic guitars quietly weep in the background, creating a gorgeously captivating effect. The production fittingly avoids overcrowding, preserving an atmosphere of bucolic insulation as our forsaken girl hums her elegiac melody all lonely in the meadow at dusk.
The tune is melancholic but avoids excessive drama, opting instead for understated resignation. Tasmin sounds heartbroken, but never on the verge of losing grip. “There’s a river and it flows away from me”, she describes. Only to then add “I’ll keep my feet dry!”. The line that names the song almost sounds resolute. Life goes on, after all, and, once she’s done grieving, our girls is not about to let go of all sparks of hope!
The single is a preview of the band’s upcoming album, due early next year. Their last effort “The Bird, The Book & The Barrel”, released in 2021, was the fruit of sessions undertaken after the global pandemic forced the trio to cut their debut tour short. It paid out, as the album reached #29 in the Official Folk Album Charts in April 2022.
“The song showcases Tasmin’s gorgeous elegiac vocals as she dwells in melancholy, but keeps a small beam of hope all through”
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