Shirley Collins released the excellent Heart’s Ease last year; her second album for Domino, it showcased Collins with her confidence fully returned. An album broader & brighter in tone than 2016’s Lodestar (her first record in 38 years), it found Shirley exploring warmer themes and featured four non-traditional songs including Heart’s Ease’s closing track “Crowlink”. > Picking up from where that album finished is the new EP, Crowlink, due July 30th. The EP is named after a particular hamlet in the Seven Sisters (a series of undulating hills on the Sussex coast) with a pathway that overlooks the English Channel which is one of Shirley’s favourite places to be. > A collection of songs sung by Shirley Collins and featuring field recordings from the edge of the cliffs at Crowlink, Firle Church and Etchingham recorded by Matthew Shaw, the EP demonstrates a more experimental side to the folk veteran. Shaw also produced the EP and played additional instrumentation across Crowlink’s five songs; whilst the EP’s artwork is by author, painter, film maker & provocateur Brian Catling.