Paste Magazine - Review

Parenting changes a person’s perspective on life and the world. So does losing one’s parents. Within the same year, 2018, Amy Speace gave birth to her son, Huckleberry, just after turning 50, and said goodbye to her father, doomed to know his grandson but forbidden from seeing him grow up. There aren’t many one-two existential punches as swift as that. The silverest lining to Speace’s experiences with man’s life cycle is her new album with The Orphan Brigade, There Used To Be Horses Here, 46 minutes of folk tracks expressing the joys of life, the responsibility of motherhood and the suffocating grip of death, all at once.