Category: Records

Album | Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – Pond Scum

Will Oldham has been scratching his name (or one of several others including Palace Brothers, Palace Music and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy) into the tree trunks of indie, folk and country for over two decades. Rooting his often dark, sometimes funny,…

Album | Snowpoet – Snowpoet

Snowpoet is one of many diverse projects involving the prolific Lauren Kinsella, a Dublin-born, London-based singer, performer and even lecturer, here united with bassist Chris Hyson for an unusual, uneven but at times beguiling first full-length album. Fusing traditional singer-songwriter…

Album | Daughter – Not To Disappear

With their second album, Not To Disappear, Daughter have done what many before them have – developing an electronic, lighter tone that handsomely complements and strengthens Elena Tonra’s mournful vocals. The breezier sound adds a zephyrean, lighter mood to the…

Album | Tindersticks – The Waiting Room

Tindersticks’ 11th long player starts in stunning cinematic instrumental fashion, and it’s not hard to see why the band is known for soundtracking films and other events (see 2014’s ‘Ypres’ that accompanies a first World War museum exhibit). ‘Follow Me’…

Album | Shovels & Rope – Busted Jukebox: Volume 1

Husband and wife duo Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent have both been making solo music under their own names for many years now, but it was only 2012 when they truly committed to recording and releasing as Shovels &…

Album | Jennylee – Right On!

Right On! is the first solo outing from jennylee, one quarter of Warpaint. As a member of a band with such a distinctive sound, you always wonder where a solo project might land – will it sound so wildly different…

Compilation | Cass McCombs – A Folk Set Apart

Cass McCombs has existed just beneath the radar for the last decade or so – and he seems comfortable that way. His last album, 2013’s Big Wheel And Others, both delighted and befuddled with its 22 tracks which included some…

Album | Bill Wells & Friends – Nursery Rhymes

When he’s not working on late-night misadventures with ex-Arab Strap frontman Aidan Moffat, prolific pianist, bassist and arranger Bill Wells is knee deep in fascinating projects like this one. It’s a simple idea – get a roomful of avant-garde artists…

Album | Smoke Fairies – Wild Winter

If you’d asked me a couple of years ago which bands I most wanted to hear tackle a Christmas record, the Smoke Fairies would have been top of the list. There has always been something about their beautiful, ethereal music…