Tag: Bonnie Prince Billy

Playlist | Matthew & The Atlas pick their favourite artists

Matthew & the Atlas are ready to return with their fine new record Temple, which is due out on April 22 via Communion. Written in his home studio in Farnborough but recorded in East Nashville with electronic folk duo Foreign…

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,…

Record Store Day | Shopping Guide Part Two

Still got money to burn after reading part one of our shopping guide? Then step this way. We’ll help you spend it. PLEASE NOTE: The prices are the ones we’ve been given – but please don’t blame us if things…

Will Oldham – An Appreciation

The word ‘legend’ is rarely as acutely appropriate to a musician as it is to Will Oldham. It is so useful not because of stature, but because of mythologizing, because of the whole hagiography, the deifying of the thing. In…

EP | Bonnie Prince Billy – Now Here’s My Plan

I sometimes wonder what it would be like if modern songs were given the kind of interpretative renditions born by traditional music – if more cover versions consciously shaped meaning, like Bellowhead, rather than merely adapting style, like the Mystery…

Record Store Day | The FFS shopping guide

With over 400 special releases planned, this year’s will easily be the biggest Record Store Day to date. We can’t imagine such a huge array of vinyl will leave anyone short of ideas, but you might just be overwhelmed by…

Album | Bonnie Prince Billy – Wolfroy Goes To Town

It is hard to believe that this is the 21st album from Will Oldham and 12th under the Bonnie Prince Billy guise. This in its self is worth celebrating, never mind that it is an absolutely beautiful piece of work.…