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Emily Barker
Emily Barker is an award-winning Australian singer-songwriter, writer and performer of the theme to the BBC's hugely successful crime drama Wallander starring Kenneth Branagh. She has released music as a solo artist as well as with various collaborators, most notably her long association with Frank Turner, and has written for film, including composing the soundtrack for Jake Gavin’s lauded debut feature Hector starring Peter Mullan and Keith Allen. New album, Fragile as Humans, produced at storied English studio The Wool Hall by Luke Potashnick (Gabrielle Aplin, Jack Savoretti, Alberta Cross). It's her first album for nearly four years, following A Dark Murmuration of Words, which Uncut called “…a kind of Australian equivalent of PJ Harvey’s Let England Shake”. “an album of spare, striking beauty” Mojo ★★★★ “…a kind of Australian equivalent of PJ Harvey’s Let England Shake” UNCUT 8/10 “bold, direct, uncompromising” CLASH “a high-class piece of songwriting and beautifully expressed musicianship” Americana UK 9/10 “irresistibly catchy…an album replete with nooks and crannies, light and shade” The Australian ★★★★★ “an album full of grace and danger” RnR ★★★★★ “One of the most literate and probing folk albums of the year. I really love it.” AnnPowers, NPR Music

Songs

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Nostalgia (Wallander Version)
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Nostalgia
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Pause
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Anywhere Away
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Sister Goodbye
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Albums

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Fragile as Humans

2024
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Sweet Kind of Blue (Deluxe Edition)

2017
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Photos. Fires. Fables. (Extended Edition)

2014
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Room 822

2022
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Dear River (Deluxe)

2016
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Vena Portae

2014
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A Dark Murmuration of Words

2020
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Applewood Road

2016
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A Window To Other Ways

2019
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The Toerag Sessions

2015

Singles & EPs

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Unpaid Bill

Single • 2026
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With Small We Start

Single • 2024
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Wild to be Sharing This Moment

Single • 2023
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White Geraniums

Single • 2025
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The Quiet Ways

Single • 2024
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Politik

Single • 2023
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Bright Idea

Single • 2025
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Feathered Thing

Single • 2024
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Tonight, Tonight

Single • 2024
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Loneliness

Single • 2024

Videos

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Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo - Tougher Than The Rest (Bruce Springsteen cover)

Emily Barker • 84K views
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Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo - The Blackwood (Lyric Video)

Emily Barker • 9.8K views

Live performances

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Emily Barker - Hello in There (John Prine cover)

Emily Barker • 7.9K views
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Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo - Look Out For My Love (Neil Young cover) (Live at Union Chapel)

Emily Barker • 35K views
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Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo - Nostalgia (Live at Union Chapel)

Emily Barker • 89K views
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Emily Barker - Pause (solo) - St James Church, Piccadilly

Emily Barker • 3.5K views
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Ghost Narrative - Emily Barker

Emily Barker • 2.7K views

Playlists by Emily Barker

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Emily Barker - A Dark Murmuration of Words

Playlist • Emily Barker • 15K views
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Dear River - Lyric Videos

Playlist • Emily Barker • 1.7K views
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Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo - Live at Union Chapel

Playlist • Emily Barker • 995 views
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The Toerag Sessions

Playlist • Emily Barker • 14K views
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Sweet Kind of Blue

Playlist • Emily Barker • 1.4K views
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Emily Barker - A Dark Murmuration of Words (lyrics videos)

Playlist • Emily Barker • 2K views
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Marry Waterson & Emily Barker - A Window to Other Ways

Playlist • Emily Barker • 1.9K views
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Wallander and Nostalgia

Playlist • Emily Barker • 1K views