The Magnetic North are re-releasing their debut album with an accompanying film, ‘Hunting For Remoteness’. Orkney: Symphony of the Magnetic North, a collaboration between Erland Cooper from Erland & The Carnival, Hannah Peel and Simon Tong (The Verve, Gorillaz), was first released last year to wide acclaim and will now be given a new lease of...
Shot amid industry and decay against background of blue skies and water, this video – which unbelievably is Hannah Peel’s first – is a perfect visualisation of the tensions that are more prevalent than ever in her music. Peel has always relished mixing the traditional and the modern, the natural and the artificial –...
Reason To Believe is an album of songs by sixties-era folk-pop musician Tim Hardin, revived and celebrated by a host of modern-day artists including Mark Lanegan, Alela Diane and Okkervil River. We spoke to three artists featured on the album – Smoke Fairies, Hannah Peel and Diagrams – along with the man behind the...
When a long-dead woman called Betty Corrigall comes to you and tells you to make an album about your shared home of Orkney it’s a difficult thing to ignore. When this happened to Erland Cooper he didn’t ignore it, but instead rounded up musicians Simon Tong and Hannah Peel and then, armed with a...
If you like your folk dreamy, stripped-down and devoid of gimmicks, we suggest you check out Emma Gatrill. Falling somewhere between Hannah Peel, Alessi’s Ark and Serafina Steer, harpist Gatrill weaves vocals and melodies together in understated, beautifully-crafted patterns. Whether singing about unrequited love or the the dangers of a cruel world, she is...
There’s nothing like a live performance to make it feel like you’ve missed something. Last time this reviewer saw Other Lives, they were on a small stage, in a sweatbox tent at a woodland festival. A few months down the line they’ve been on the road with Bon Iver, they’re currently taking a break...
With mulled wines in hand, the people of Leeds have packed into the pews of the Holy Trinity Church to hear one of their own deliver the annual Christmas service from the local Gaslight Club. Well, nearly. Hannah introduces herself and band member Laura Groves (AKA Blue Roses) as Leeds artists, then quickly corrects...
Brighton-based collective Willkommen announce line-up for third annual Foxtrot festival held at stately home Stanmer House. Peggy Sue and Alessi's ark will support headliners Herman Dune, alongside Sam Amidon, Nancy Elizabeth, This is the Kit and Hannah Peel.
Hannah Peel describes her music as wonky folk pop with hints of traditional irish, Yorkshire brass band sounds and a cloaked throbbing sadness.
"Making the record has just been an amazing experience. I've never worked with a producer before so it was very exciting to have my songs taken and expanded in a...
Since making its first appearance on her Tra Mhor EP, The Almond Tree, which opens Hannah Peel’s excellent debut album The Broken Wave, has acquired some beefy percussion, a swaggering bass line and some Grandaddy-esque beepy synthesiser arpeggios. It’s quite a change from the simple piano and accordion of the original and is a...
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