Top Tracks: Lucy Kitchen – Red Skies

It’s when we are stuck in one place that we find ourselves yearning to wander, and pondering all the possibilities that await us should we follow where that feeling takes us. It’s this call to adventure that compels us to stay up till the small hours to make the most of a time that is entirely our own, when the rest of the world is sleeping and demanding nothing of us. It’s the call inherent in those long summer nights – all the extra hours of sunlight beckoning you out to make the most of them while they last. It’s the same call that resonated within singer/songwriter Lucy Kitchen as she sat waiting at a set of traffic lights, their red glow mingling with the soft golden hues of sunset, and thought on all the possibilities that an open road and a summer night could lead to. With its charming folk arrangement and soft swells of steel guitar, ‘Red Skies’ positively hums with all the warmth, stillness, and potential of a dusky evening in June. That spark of spontaneity that longs to break away and make memories.