“As a backing musician, Heather Woods Broderick has an enviable CV. Over the past decade or so, she can list stints with Laura Gibson, Lisa Hannigan and her long-time collaborator Sharon Van Etten on her resume, as well as time spent in bands like Efterklang and Horse Feathers. What really marked her out as a good signing for anybody, though, was less her track record and more her own solo material”
“Toward the end of “A Stilling Wind,” the opening track on Heather Woods Broderick’s Invitation, a familiar literary figure makes a brief appearance. Broderick sings, amidst an eddy of dramatic cello and violin bowing, “In the cold moon lighting the night-filled bay / I saw the white hare: ‘Oh dear I will be too late.’” In Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland—and in Jefferson Airplane’s acid-fueled ”
“Heather Woods Broderick struggles with emotion but evokes natural beauty on Invitation”
“Three albums in, the Oregon-based multi-instrumentalist still sounds as though she’s composing music en plein air.”
