Folk music

This was a performance full of crystalline moments – gems stepping out of time – and also a truly shared experience.

The newer songs were often driven by throbby synth-loops and relatively modern beats, but always overlaid with KC’s characteristic gravelly, Scots-inflected tones.

Her voice was deep and strong, the songs pre-empted by a meandering building of context, a conversation at a show with a man who nearly lost everything due to his alcohol abuse issues;