Music for Film + TV
Emily Barker

Emily Barker is an award-winning singer-songwriter, best known as the writer and performer of the theme to the BBC’s hugely successful crime drama Wallander starring Kenneth Branagh. She has released music as a solo artist as well as with various bands including The Red Clay Halo, Vena Portae and Applewood Road (with whom she released a remarkable album of original songs recorded live around a single microphone, dubbed “flawless” by The Sunday Times) and has written for film, including ...
Emily Barker is an award-winning singer-songwriter, best known as the writer and performer of the theme to the BBC’s hugely successful crime drama Wallander starring Kenneth Branagh. She has released music as a solo artist as well as with various bands including The Red Clay Halo, Vena Portae and Applewood Road (with whom she released a remarkable album of original songs recorded live around a single microphone, dubbed “flawless” by The Sunday Times) and has written for film, including composing the soundtrack for Jake Gavin’s lauded debut feature Hector starring Peter Mullan and Keith Allen.
As a performer, Barker is captivating and accomplished, with an adept understanding of audiences that finds her equally at home touring with punk troubadour Frank Turner as she is with American multi-Grammy-winning musician Mary Chapin Carpenter.
Most recently, Barker has released an album of collaborations with English folk legend Marry Waterson. A Window to Other Ways is out now on One Little Indian Records.
The Toerag Sessions (Extended Edition)
AlbumFragile as Humans
AlbumRoom 822
AlbumA Dark Murmuration of Words
AlbumShadow Box
AlbumA Window To Other Ways
AlbumSweet Kind of Blue (Deluxe Edition)
AlbumSweet Kind of Blue
AlbumThe Toerag Sessions
AlbumDear River
AlbumDear River (Deluxe)
AlbumAlmanac
AlbumDespite the Snow
AlbumPhotos. Fires. Fables. (Extended Edition)
AlbumBright Idea
SingleTonight, Tonight
SingleWith Small We Start
SingleThe Quiet Ways
SingleFeathered Thing
SingleLoneliness
SingleWild to be Sharing This Moment
SinglePolitik
SingleA Dark Murmuration of Strings
SingleSonogram (String Quartet Version)
SingleBoys Will Be Boys
SingleSleep Australia Sleep
SingleDinosaur Bones
SingleBound for Home
SingleThe Rains
SingleSongs Beneath The River
SingleMetway Sessions (Acoustic)
SingleLittle Hits Of Dopamine (Acoustic)
SinglePerfect Needs
SingleTwister
SingleTomorrow Be Now
SingleMore!
SingleChange
SingleSunrise
SingleSister Goodbye
SingleAnywhere Away (Songs from the Jake Gavin Film Hector)
SingleFields of June
SingleEmily Barker news
Emily Barker ‘A Dark Murmuration of Words’ out 4th September 2020
Upcoming Emily Barker gigs
20 November 2025 | Emily Barker | Blue Bird Festival 2025 | Vienna | Austria |