"Ailbhe Reddy’s website proudly boasts a quote from The Line of Best Fit which reads as follows: ‘Ailbhe Reddy stands head and shoulders above the folk mainstream’ I, along with many others, couldn’t have said it better. Just two years on from the release of her debut Hollowed Out Sea EP and already the young Dubliner is a regular on the line-ups of some of the biggest music festivals including Glastonbury, Body & Soul and Electric Picnic. It’s no surprise that her debut single Distrust has alone had over 2 million streams on Spotify. Set in the shadows of moody melancholia, her songs, with their clear, honest delivery and minimalist soundscapes, are utterly compelling. Ailbhe Reddy’s songwriting skills are unequivocally on-point. Tight, stark, raw, and deeply evocative, they lay bare a narrative to which the listener can relate, engage, digest, empathise. Add to that, the pristine voice that effortlessly conveys the gamut of emotional inlays that dominate Reddy’s powerful works. With sublime vocal choreography, the magic of which is augmented by her sheer virtuosity as a lyricist and hallmark light-touch instrumentation, Ailbhe Reddy is without doubt, a music artist who “stands head and shoulders above the folk mainstream.”