Author: Joe Sweeting

Album | Cory Branan – The No Hit Wonder

Cory Branan is the musician’s musician, feted and adored by luminaries of the business, including the likes of Frank Turner, Chuck Ragan, and fellow rising Country star Caitlin Rose, the latter guesting on the fantastic steel-stringed ‘All the Rivers in…

Album | Luke Sital-Singh – The Fire Inside

Emerging in 2012 as BBC 6 Music presenter Steve Lamacq’s ‘One to Watch’, Luke Sital-Singh has been quietly building towards The Fire Inside, his debut album, which follows a string of EP’s released in the interim 18 months since his appearance…

Album | Vena Portae – Vena Portae

Emily Barker’s latest project, Vena Portae, emerged from recording sessions in the winter months of 2012 in Sweden; the delay between recording and release the result of each members on-going musical commitments.  Where Barker’s voice would usually be accompanied by…

Album | Emma Tricca – Relic

The Italian-born folk songstress Emma Tricca returns with her second album, Relic, following on from the delicate and hushed Minor White, released back in 2009.  Whereas the tracks on Minor White were sparsely arranged, with the emphasis purely on Tricca,…

Album | Slow Club – Complete Surrender

Slow Club are on the cusp of becoming huge with their third LP, Complete Surrender; a more mature, fuller-sounding record than Paradise, and a million miles away from their debut, Yeah, So? Comprised of multi instrumentalists Rebecca Taylor and Charles…

Album | George Ezra – Wanted on Voyage

It’s hard to believe that George Ezra has only just celebrated his 21st birthday. Possessing a voice which sounds as if it has lived through a lifetime of whisky and cigarettes, Ezra’s gravelly intonation is perhaps his greatest strength; in…

Album | Pete Molinari – Theosophy

Regarded by many as one of the UK’s finest folk singers, Pete Molinari has struck gold again with his latest opus, Theosophy, a collection of tracks which are tinged in the sound of the early 1960’s. It is rock ‘n’…

Album | Ethan Johns – The Reckoning

Swopping his familiar position behind the mixing desk to the recording studio himself, Ethan Johns, with a production CV boasting the likes of Kings of Leon, Laura Marling and Ryan Adams to name just a few, has stepped to the…

Album | Tom Williams & The Boat – Easy Fantastic

Tom Williams and his sea-faring backing band, The Boat, return with their third album Easy Fantastic, funded entirely through Pledges made by fans of the band. For those who have heard other records by Tom Williams, there hasn’t been much…

Album | Conor Oberst – Upside Down Mountain

Often labelled as the ‘21’st Century Dylan’, or, ‘the spokesperson of the Ritalin generation’, Conor Oberst is, to many, a hero, one of the best songwriters around today. He is well known for his ability to pen a good lyric,…