Martyn's new album, Sanctuary, is the Welsh singer-songwriter's twenty first studio release in a prolific career spanning four decades. According to Martyn, this album has "history, reflection, social justice, an instrumental piece, songs for mothers and lovers, and a certain promise that has not been around for some time." Sanctuary affirms his reputation as the Welsh Springsteen, an amazing live performer, renowned craftsman and guitarist whose songs profoundly articulate the human condition, emphasized by a stout social conscience.