Freddie Stevenson's daring and beautiful new album 'The Darkening / The Brightening' marks a coming of age of this singularly talented British/American songwriter and guitarist. Co-produced with Waterboys' singer Mike Scott, 'The Darkening / The Brightening' comprises eighteen short songs audaciously arranged in two song montages; each song on 'The Darkening' section of the album drops a key, whilst 'The Brightening' lifts, creating a holistic cycle of story and song. This is an album in the true sense of the word, a mosaic of luminous, original song shapes, plucked from the old air of the Scottish borders where Freddie wrote them, and inserted, like butterflies on the pages of a book, in the bytes and grooves of this remarkable record.