Anglicana

Carthy and Ben Ivitsky produced; Ivitsky engineered at Bamboo Hut in Edinburgh, Adrian Bradley at Twickenham Sound Studios and Oliver Knight at Panda Sound in Robin Hood's Bay for "Little Gypsy Girl", and Denis Blackham mastered. Topic describes it as grounded in English traditional music, avoiding pastiche, with a title that reflects her view of Englishness as inclusive. All tracks are traditional and arranged by Carthy except "Dr MCMBE", her own tune written for Martin Carthy's 60th birthday, which arrived late but in time for his honorary doctorate, hence the title. Topic quotes The Independent calling it a brilliant updating of the English folk tradition, and fRoots calling it surely the best album of its type this century; the Guardian's Adam Sweeting gave 4 of 5. Rambles.NET's Jerome Clark noted that opening rhythms suggest folk-rock though the record does not follow.