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Bio
Flora Hibberd was born in London, and lives in Paris. In 2019 she released her debut EP, 'The Absentee,' through London-based indie Clearlight Records. Critics described being 'swept away by her deeply moving emotional presence,' (Folk Radio UK) and called Flora 'a marvellous newcomer to the realm of indie folk.' (PopMatters) In september 2020 she started working with Paris-based producer Victor Claass, putting out a second EP, 'Archipelago,' followed in 2021 by the short album 'Hold.' Flora just finished her next album recorded with Shane Leonard in Eau Claire (WI), to be released on January 17, 2025 by US label 22 Twenty.
A thing of beauty, the music of Flora Hibberd... Whatever she’s put
out thus far is absolutely perfect
Cerys Matthews, BBC 6Music
It doesn’t get any better than this, haunting, beautiful
and timeless… I can’t wait to hear more
Folk Radio UK
One of the foremost faces of a rising movement in contemporary folk music
For Folk’s Sake
A spectacular newcomer
Beehive Candy
Photo by Juliette Fournillon
Headlights
Headlights on an endless road
Nocturnal eyes blink once and I
Am alone again but always beside me
The spectre the terrible ghost of you
Slyly I wait for a judgement that never
Arrives I will always arrive at his side
What is this companion a lucid dream dead
But alive his transparent knife in my side
And I hate to tell you coldly
But the melodrama suits me
And I don’t know how to do it
Any other way I promised you so
Many things so many ways
To live this life but with me
Or without me you will always be ok
We’re in the deep where the spectre sleeps
All round the car the shadows leap and fall away
In my mind’s eye they’re dancing forever
Behind the rough heather and all through the trees
Everything a transaction a give and a take
And up rises the ghost and my heart starts to break
O I gave you my love but I took it away
And you gave me everything and promised to stay
Well the trees as I left you they started to burn
And the wind it rose high and the reservoir burst
And the signal came all down the line
If you turn around now you might still have the time
The Healing
And I made some bad choices
There were some led astray
Loved nightly slept lightly
Washed my troubles away
Washed them in the white water
Pushed them under pushed them in
And the candlelights are gleaming
But this darkness is within
O dark husband
I wait here where you should have been
And burn some holy oil
Hoping that something is forgiven
O distant one
I am ready I am ready for the healing now to come
And I know that they are kneeling now
And I hear the static roar
Lover I have crossed over
And I see it all so new
And if you don’t know me now
Well you never really knew
Night, Perpetual
Tried to take a picture
Lens beams into the chasm
That unrolls itself before me
I went to see the tapestry
Hoping it would be a map
That I could follow
In the quiet museum
Night, perpetual
Beaming and beaming
My love I want you softly
My love I want you dreaming
Shining and shining
Maps never led to you
Don’t know how I arrived
A highway and an exit
And I was by your side
In your bed I traced my fingers
Along the golden road
Among the tangled threads that wove
Transformation mmmm
Beaming and beaming
My love I want you softly
My love I want you dreaming
Shining and shining
I hold you holding me again
And jubilation
You show to me a mirror
You say this is who you are
This is who you are
Beaming and beaming
My love I want you softly
My love I want you dreaming
Shining and shining
Beaming and beaming
My love I want you softly
My love I want you dreaming
Shining and shining
Shine A Signal
As you stare into
The open mouth of the world
I was trying to reach you all evening
But there’s still so much to learn
I tried to leave you behind
So many times but I return
Then the big moon rose up high and wild
And I am weak as a wave
Forever breaking on your shore
Wherever you are
I shine a signal
Whoever you are
I send a call
Mmmmmm
This is the end and the
Beginning and it’s time that is
Collapsing as you’re spinning out
To join the other planets
And your gravity pull
And your sunrise arms are waving now
And I cast it to the sky
I don’t ask why anymore
The mystery grows every day
Wherever you are
I shine a signal
Whoever you are
I send a call
I need you all the time
All the time
Night, Perpetual
Tried to take a picture
Lens beams into the chasm
That unrolls itself before me
I went to see the tapestry
Hoping it would be a map
That I could follow
In the quiet museum
Night, perpetual
Beaming and beaming
My love I want you softly
My love I want you dreaming
Shining and shining
Maps never led to you
Don’t know how I arrived
A highway and an exit
And I was by your side
In your bed I traced my fingers
Along the golden road
Among the tangled threads that wove
Transformation mmmm
Beaming and beaming
My love I want you softly
My love I want you dreaming
Shining and shining
I hold you holding me again
And jubilation
You show to me a mirror
You say this is who you are
This is who you are
Beaming and beaming
My love I want you softly
My love I want you dreaming
Shining and shining
Beaming and beaming
My love I want you softly
My love I want you dreaming
Shining and shining
I Let You Go
Your house being the last
Before the infinite
Your body being the last
Body I’ve known
I’ve known them well
I’ve held them close
I let them go
I’ve known them well
I’ve held them close
I let them go
I stumbled out of my bed
Into another day
Remembering what you had said
A long time ago
I’ve known you well
I’ve held you close
I let you go
I’ve known you well
I’ve held you close
I let you go
Drink coffee out on the porch
Scroll through the endless news
In Paris you’re still fast asleep
This much I know
I know you well
I held you close
I let you go
I know you well
I held you close
I let you go
Last year we would have been walking
To the neighbourhood bar
Another week end without you
Wherever you are
I knew you well
I held you close
I let you go
I knew you well
I held you close
I let you go
Shenandoah
Shenandoah, how long will I miss you
Tonight you're far away as the Kentucky moon
And I know you hold a secret of mine or two
Tonight little darling my heart's with you
Wabash between us feel the cannon ball blues
Maybe I really did see the light
Halfway to heaven's fine
But I could not be sure
Halfway is all there ever was
And I know you hold a secret of yours or two
Tonight, little darlin, my heart's with you
There's just so much a man can miss
And just no end to what he can regret
And I'm holding on to whatever hope shows through
Tonight little darling my heart's with you
Tonight little darling my heart's with you
Headlights
Headlights on an endless road
Nocturnal eyes blink once and I
Am alone again but always beside me
The spectre the terrible ghost of you
Slyly I wait for a judgement that never
Arrives I will always arrive at his side
What is this companion a lucid dream dead
But alive his transparent knife in my side
And I hate to tell you coldly
But the melodrama suits me
And I don’t know how to do it
Any other way I promised you so
Many things so many ways
To live this life but with me
Or without me you will always be ok
We’re in the deep where the spectre sleeps
All round the car the shadows leap and fall away
In my mind’s eye they’re dancing forever
Behind the rough heather and all through the trees
Everything a transaction a give and a take
And up rises the ghost and my heart starts to break
O I gave you my love but I took it away
And you gave me everything and promised to stay
Well the trees as I left you they started to burn
And the wind it rose high and the reservoir burst
And the signal came all down the line
If you turn around now you might still have the time
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