The Days That Shaped Me

With a pedigree as fine as they come in the world of English folk, siblings Marry Waterson and Oliver Knight certainly pay homage to their parents' seminal traditionalism in The Watersons with their long-awaited duo debut The Days That Shaped Me, but the pair use this sound as a launching-off point rather than an end in itself. Though both have collaborated with family members onstage and in recordings, the younger generation's genre-defying, atmospheric debut is influenced as much by the likes of Pink Floyd, Madness, Harry Nilsson, and Billie Holiday as by their forbears. The Days That Shaped Me also finds the pair collaborating with like-minded contemporaries James Yorkston and Kathryn Williams, as well as their cousin Eliza McCarthy and Scottish multi-instrumentalist/electronic artist Ruben Taylor. Well worth the long wait, The Days That Shaped Me - organic, original, vivid, and gloriously real - shows that Marry and Oliver's musical partnership is set to carve its own place in the family legend.