"The best British singer-songwriter of the last ten years – and then some" - Uncut. "Unarguably one of the finest singer-songwriters of her generation" - Sunday Times Culture. "The best wordsmith of her generation" - The Independent. It's been 13 years and eight albums since Thea released Avalanche, her critically acclaimed fifth release and the album deemed to be her breakthrough record. The then 23-year-old was writing with a fire inside her post 9/11 about global anxiety and the increasingly vacuous celebrity culture. Calling upon the spirit of this predecessor, Thea is back with the album she feels follows it. Having never entirely lost her voice of protest, on subsequent albums Thea was looking inward more, singing songs about the depression she had been diagnosed with, love songs in uncertain times and songs about parenthood. Now though, she is back with The Counterweight, an album full of passion and fire inside to protest, and an album that echoes the rapid change in our social and political landscape that 2016 brought with it. When finishing the album in September, Thea was forced to look back at the spring and summer recording period and the tumultuous times that happened throughout the year including working on 'Reconcile' as Britain voted to leave the EU, and recording 'Johnny Gets A Gun' three days after the Orlando shooting. That day was also most harrowingly of all, the day when the world was watching the tragedy of Jo Cox's murder unfold and at the very eleventh hour became the inspiration for the final track 'The War', with the first and last verses directly referencing her." - cookingvinyl.com