Hunteress - Destruction Horizon (2023)

DESTRUCTION HORIZON is the 2nd album from UK artist Hunteress an alias of the musician Laura Cannell, (following her debut album 'The Unshackling’ released 2020 on Boomkat Editions). The ten tracks feature Cannell’s vocals, electronics & instrumentals digging deep into ideas of folklore, history, plantlore, and her own freeform semi-improvised songwriting to create ‘Synthpop Moonlit Torch-songs’.

The title is inspired by the burnt red clay and charcoal layers seen in the earth that archaeologists refer to as the Destruction Horizon, left by the revolt in AD 60 led by Boudicca, Queen of the East Anglian Iceni Tribe.

Stepping away from the solo & minimalist music that has featured on Laura’s solo albums, collaborations, and live performances, here she steps into a parallel universe of Hunteress embracing electronics, voice and the ancient sound of the crumhorn to bare herself musically in a new way. It is not sugar coated, or neat, but a woman, strong, determined and surrounded by emotions, ideas, solitude and a feral landscape in a complicated time.

“It feels like we are currently living our own Destruction Horizon and I think that people will look back and see the chaos and residue in the earth and ether of the past five to ten years. Whether it is really buried in the earth, a physical layer of face masks, emotional scars, war, climate change, separation… real or imagined, people will know that something has happened here just like we can see how Boudicca’s revolt scarred the earth and is still visible and tangible if you dig deep enough.


Together with inspiration from plantlore and folklore, I include sayings that I have heard growing up, as well as newly formed warnings for the 21st century. “Do not sit under the Elderflower because you’ll turn to stone”. “We plant Blood Hilder” to remember our loved ones like the early UK settlers did, so that you know someone from your family or community was here before you. Sometimes we need to remember that we humans are all in this together.”
Hunteress (March 2023)