Description
RELEASE DATE: 19th February 2026. Pre-order now!
“Gone to flowers” is bursting with new and unusual songs around the theme of endings and mortality. They are mostly in the folk genre, but with surprises like a Mexican Day of the Dead feel on the traditional English folk song “Like a leaf”; Eastern European flavours on “A nice wooden bench” and a bit of Americana with “It doesn’t matter now”. You’ll hear 21 layers of Amy’s harmonic vocals on “All shall be well”; field recordings from nature on many of the tracks and the voices of her social media followers whispering their favourite proverbs on the song “Breadcrumbs”. The fantastical stories in Amy’s new songs include a hubristic man who gets eaten by a magical cat “Igor Potemkin meets Bayun the cat”, and an evil fairy who gives her unwanted birthday gifts on “I’d rather be older (than dead)”.
The album comes in a beautifully designed CD digi-pack with a 16 page booklet including the song lyrics and more of Amy’s artwork on every page.
TRACK LISTING
1 – A nice wooden bench
2 – Breadcrumbs
3 – I’d rather be older (than dead)
4 – It doesn’t matter now
5 – She became a bird
6 – All shall be well
7 – Igor Potemkin meets Bayun the cat
8 – Like a leaf
9 – Never said
10 – River and fish
11 – The closest thing to holding hands
12 – In the whistling of the wind
13 – East of the sun and west of the moon
CREDITS
Amy Hopwood – all vocals and instruments, except:
Sherida Katerina – violin on tracks 1, 4 and 11
Stuart Faulkner – accordion on track 3
Tobias Raabe – guitar on track 7
Coralie Hopwood – guitarron and cuatro on track 8
Sailor’s Return sessions (at Wessex Folk Festival) – chorus singing on track 3
Janne, Clair, Terri and Darren – additional singing on track 3
Maisie the cat – purring on track 7
All songs written and produced by Amy Hopwood, except track 8 (traditional).
A massive thank you to my wonderful Patreons – Miriam Stalzer, Alasdair and Celia MacDonald, Averil Pardey, Miranda Tunnicliffe, Patrick Swainson, Ellen Vrana, Sue Thomas, Elaine Hall and Marian Bore – your support and encouragement means a huge amount to me.
Thanks also to everyone who responded to my strange requests via newsletter or social media… Your thoughts on the irritations of getting older ended up in track 3; your heirlooms are mentioned in track 11 and of course your “ancestor” voices can be heard on track 2! Thank you so much for being a part of my music!
