Brigid Mae Power's ruminative, atmospheric indie folk is often both ethereal and passionate at once. Following a pair of self-recorded releases, her first studio album, the drone-suffused Brigid Mae Power, appeared in 2016. A more defiant second long-player, 2018's The Two Worlds, addressed past abuse.

Power spent her early childhood in her birthplace of London until her Irish parents moved the family to Galway when Brigid was 12. She learned to play the button accordion before starting to sing and play piano as a teen and adding guitar, ukulele, and harmonium to her skill set.

She was living in New York in the late 2000s when a bad relationship resulted in her moving back to Ireland. Then a single mother, she worked a day job to make ends meet until ultimately deciding that she probably wouldn't be much worse off devoting her time to gigging. She began playing music full-time in 2013, the year she issued the mostly home-recorded EP Eee Tuts. (One song was recorded in an underground parking garage.) The eight-track I Told You the Truth followed in 2014. It was recorded live by Power at St. Nicholas' Church in Galway. She toured with Peter Broderick in 2015, and soon American indie label Tompkins Square Records came calling. They put out her first studio album, Brigid Mae Power, in 2016, the same year Power and Broderick married. Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Broderick at his Portland home studio, it was later heralded on both sides of the Atlantic by outlets like NPR and BBC.

German vinyl label Oscarson released her 12" EP The Ones You Keep Close in 2017. It consisted of older songs she had never taken into the studio as well as a cover of the English folk song "As I Roved Out." Power delivered her second album, the trauma-themed The Two Worlds, on Tompkins Square the following year and detailed some of her experiences with abuse in a blog post in support of the Me Too movement. Later in 2018, the EP Live at Coughlan's captured a performance from her tour with Ryley Walker the previous year.

After joining the Fire Records roster, Power returned with the full-length Head Above the Water in 2020. It was co-produced by Power, Broderick, and singer/songwriter Alasdair Roberts, all of whom also played on the album. ~ Marcy Donelson, Rovi