Lydia AinsworthBest Lydia Ainsworth Albums Ranked

Darling of the Afterglow

nme

8.0

“As the clanging keyboard chords that open ‘The Road’ ring out like sinister church bells, it’s clear that Canadian composer and songwriter Lydia Ainsworth’s second album is going to be something very special indeed. Following a spate of recent pop culture nods to a hip new activism-based kind of witchcraft – indie movie The Love Witch and Lana Del Rey’s anti-Trump spell for starters – this seems t”

Darling of the Afterglow

loudandquiet

8.0

“It’s telling that in place of a serene forest, lit by twilight, the cover of Lydia Ainsworth’s second album is a profile shot of her staring boldly at the camera, looking defiant yet angelic. Certainly the clanging bells, piano and synths that open ‘Darling Of The Afterglow’ signify a change – gone are the softer edges and spectral moods, replaced with something altogether more colourful and assur”

Darling of the Afterglow

thelineofbestfit

8.0

“Lydia Ainsworth gives weirdness a warm welcome”

Right from Real

pitchfork

7.9

“Canadian artist Lydia Ainsworth is a studied classicist with distinctly modern curiosities. Her debut album, Right from Real, doesn't attempt to resolve those differences in ideologies, but rather culls vitality from the meditative space between their opposing forces.”

Sparkles & Debris

pitchfork

7.3

“The Canadian singer and songwriter’s fourth album is an ambitious collage of ’90s R&B and orchestral dramatics, welded together by her versatile, gossamer voice.”

Phantom Forest

pitchfork

7.0

“The ever-ambitious Toronto composer tackles big themes on her environmentally minded song cycle, but keeps things refreshingly immediate and small-scale.”