Author: Anna Main

Album | Anna Tivel – Animal Poem

Closing off the main chapter of summer is Anna Tivel’s seventh full-length studio album Animal Poem. Produced with Sam Weber, most of the recordings were created in a wonderfully collaborative space with many of Tivel’s closest friends making music together…

Album | Minor Gold – Way To The Sun

Across centuries and civilisations, the sun has been a symbol of hope, and it is definitely the star of the show in Way to the Sun, the sophomore album by powerhouse duo Minor Gold, comprised of Dan Parsons and Tracy…

Album | Watchhouse – Rituals

For North Carolina folk duo Watchhouse, comprised of Emily Frantz and Andrew Marlin, it all began over a decade ago in coffee shops and local restaurants. Now, they are one of the biggest success stories in 21st century indie music,…

Album | James McMurtry – The Black Dog and The Wandering Boy

With The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy, Texas-born James McMurtry bursts back onto the scene four years since his last album with a voice reminiscent of the great Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash. This new chapter features the likes…

Album | Laura Reznek – The Sewing Room

Nomadic spirit Laura Reznek has already been on the road many times in her musical career, crossing the Atlantic and roaming the UK and mainland Europe. The Canadian-born singer-songwriter’s third album feels like a moment taken to pause, to hold…

Album | Toria Wooff – Toria Wooff

“The self-reflection in the title demonstrates a life lived. The songs are […] moments immortalised in time, bound together by nothing more than the human experience.” Thus Lancashire-born singer-songwriter Toria Wooff muses on the creation of her self-titled debut album.…

Album | Luke Sital-Singh – Fool’s Spring

The past five years have been quite a rollercoaster ride for London-born singer-songwriter Luke Sital-Singh, who embarked on a Transatlantic journey with his wife to live the Californian dream in Los Angeles five years ago, before returning to the UK.…

Album | Rhona Macfarlane – As The Chaos Unfolds

Born into a creative household, Scottish singer/songwriter Rhona Macfarlane was exposed to folk music from an early age and received classical training at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Co-produced with Matt Ingram, her wonderfully honest debut album As The Chaos…

Album | Windborne – To Warm The Winter Hearth

To Warm The Winter Hearth, the latest polyphonic masterpiece by New England vocal quartet Windborne, rolls in as the nights grow ever longer. The beautiful four-part harmonies offered by Lauren Breunig, Jeremy Carter-Gordon, Lynn Rowan and Will Rowan are the star…

Album | Jennifer Castle – Camelot

Canadian songwriter Jennifer Castle’s seventh album Camelot is a real fusion of the fantastical and the mundane, one flowing seamlessly into the other through themes of mysticism – apt, given the mystical, legendary seat of King Arthur’s court from which…