Emily Barker's new album, Fragile as Humans, releases May 3rd 2024. New single The Quiet Ways out March 22nd.

Emily Barker (born 2 December 1980) [1][2] is an Australian singer-songwriter, musician and composer. Her music has featured as the theme to BBC dramas Wallander and The Shadow Line.

following about the collection... Sonogram {soundwriting} by Emily Barker is a structurally inventive collection in which lyric, score, setlist, dream record and field note braid into a poetics of voice under …

Emily Barker - Fragile as Humans Play all On her new album, Fragile as Humans—written and recorded as her time living in the UK was coming to a close—Emily Barker turns her lyrical gaze...

Nov 14, 2025 · Influenced by her father's Joni Mitchell, Rickie Lee Jones, and Sandy Denny record collection, Emily Barker is an Australian singer/songwriter who came up in the U.K. chamber folk scene.

As Emily writes in the album's pivotal title track, we live lives of complexity, grappling with loneliness and disconnection, searching for compassion, connection and community – we are all “fragile as humans …

She found early success as the writer and performer of the theme to the hugely successful BBC/PBS Masterpiece crime drama Wallander starring Kenneth Branagh and has since gone on to forge an …

Emily Barker (born 2 December 1980) is an Australian singer-songwriter, musician and composer. Her music has featured as the theme to BBC dramas Wallander and The Shadow Line.

May 20, 2024 · All of that makes Fragile as Humans a very direct expression of Barker’s creative vision and makes for a powerful statement. I spoke with Emily Barker shortly after she returned to the UK …

Barker worked on editing the songs while touring the States with Mary Chapin Carpenter, performing and refining them on the road. On her return she was ready to begin recording.