Category: Records

Album | Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – 1974

In the 40 years since America’s all-time favourite supergroup embarked on a massive stadium tour all four members have led us to a perception which at face value makes this vast compendium – available in one-disc, four-disc, and uber-box-set form…

Album | Jon Allen – Deep River

Winchester-born songwriter Jon Allen is best known for two songs that helped sell Land Rovers around the world, but the eleven powerful, incredible songs on his latest album Deep River suggest it is now time he is known for his…

Album | Broken Boat – Small Defeats

I just happened to be listening to this first full album from Broken Boat on a calm day last week after the British storms had passed, and the fact that the songs created a perfect backdrop to my setting tells…

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 | Stephen Steinbrink – Arranged Waves

While this is Stephen Steinbrink’s first release, either solo or as part of French Quarter, in the UK, the Arizona-born singer-songwriter has been around for some time. Arranged Waves marks his seventh solo album of artful pop, and one of…

Album | King Creosote – From Scotland With Love

King Creosote’s love letter to Scotland could not have come at a better time with the eyes of the world turning north for the Commonwealth Games and the upcoming independence referendum. But don’t expect a collection of rousing anthems –…

Album | Twelfth Day – The Devil Makes Three

You could be forgiven for not believing that this is only their second full studio album, as Twelfth Day not only sound much more accomplished in their brand of innovative modern, yet traditionally-infused, folk, but because they have already released…

Album | Otis Gibbs – Souvenirs of a Misspent Youth

The country blues intro of ‘Cozmina’ is a great setting out of the stall for Otis Gibbs’ seventh album. The twanging banjo and the gliding strings are deliciously palatable. When Otis’ well-torn and whiskey-­soaked voice enters and the song becomes…

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…