Gwyneth Herbert’s sixth album, The Sea Cabinet, is a maritime-themed set of stories which gives the impression that a writer of traditional British folk songs has been reincarnated in the 21st century.
But then the 31-year-old Englishwoman has been described as “a singer-songwriter with one foot in the jazz world and one somewhere in the future, who writes beautiful melodies and has a poet’s grasp of the world around her”.
