Album review: Moira

Climbing Mountains in the Night

(independent)

It seems UK-transplant Moira Campbell has decided to get back to her electronica roots with her latest EP, Climbing Mountains in the Night. Moira’s light-yet-strong voice plays alongside both banjos and breakbeats in this mostly nature-oriented six-song collection (two of the songs can be found on the soundtrack for West Coast Trail doc Survival of the Fittest, which will be screening at her CD release this weekend). Indeed, it’s the more electronic songs that shine on the record, particularly “Flowing Like a River,” which seamlessly leaps from drum and bass to bleeps and bloops to tabla. Big thumbs up to producer Corwin Fox on this one, too, as his sequencing is as much a player on this disc as Moira’s voice is. Climbing Mountains continues to prove Moira is one of Victoria’s lesser-known musical treasures. Let’s hope that changes soon.

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Moira CD Release
7pm Saturday, July 19
The Fernwood Inn, 1302
Gladstone
Tickets $12 • 250-412-2001