Today It Rains” is the debut release from the young Merseysider Esme Bridie on Liverpool’s Klee Music. It is a remarkable mature album, considering Esme’s youth, and it illustrates her gift for song-writing and poetic lyricism. This set of twelve compositions deals with the usual life themes of love and loss, redemption and guilt, but from the view of the view of someone born at the cusp of the 21st Century. This debut album successfully showcases Esme’s considerable compositional skills and her obvious ear for melody. Add to this her lyrical mastery, and what you have is a musical work of true beauty and strength - which is the original meaning of the word “Bridie”. Apt indeed. Esme Bridie's style combines flowing angelic vocals and clear finger picked guitar. She draws influences from classic singer-songwriters such as Carole King, Paul Simon and Leonard Cohen. Esme takes great pride in her lyrical content as she was a writer before she began to play music.
