Some records you listen to because you are drawn to them like a moth to a flame. Andromeda by Alex Rex is just such a record. It is a descent into the dark recesses of a man who has seen…
Album | Alex Rex – Andromeda
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Album | The Lone Bellow – Half Moon Light
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Connections are at the heart of what makes The Lone Bellow so special, and on Half Moon Light the bonds are everywhere. Opening the record, ‘Intro’ features Zach Williams’ grandmother playing piano at the funeral of her husband of sixty-four years. This family connection…
Album | Drive-by Truckers – The Unraveling
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“This madness has to stop.” Those words by Patterson Hood are at the emotional core of the Drive-by Truckers new record, The Unraveling. Coming almost four years after American Band, this is a record that nobody really wanted to make. “They’re…
Album | Bonny Light Horseman – Bonny Light Horseman
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Folk music doesn’t simply exist. It constantly reinvents its self, creating something both old and new at the same time. Bonny Light Horseman – the group and the album created by Anais Mitchell, the singer/songwriter behind the Tony winning Hadestown;…
Album | Aoife Nessa Frances – Land Of No Junction
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Sometimes what you hear is wrong, yet so right that it inhabits its own place created out of thin air. Such is the case with the final song and title track of Land of No Junction by Aoife Ness Frances. “Take…
Album | Boa Morte – Before There Was Air
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Boa Morte means the good death in Portuguese, which is somehow fitting for a band that has released just three albums since their formation in 1998. Yet instead of a death wish they just want to make their music their…
Album | Vetiver – Up On High
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Over the years Vetiver have been a bit of a chameleon. There was a slightly Fleetwood Mac-ish tinge to Complete Strangers. Four years down the line, Up On High is a very different beast, much more of an acoustic outing…
Interview | ‘Face to Face’ with Twelfth Day
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Scotland’s Twelfth Day inhabit a special place. Catriona Price and Esther Swift are classically trained musicians, yet in their band there is a focus on improvisation one rarely sees. The opportunity to question these women and introduce their newest track…
Album | James McArthur and The Head Gardeners – Intergalactic Sailor
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Sometimes it feels as if James McArthur and The Head Gardeners are being set up to take the fall if the resurgence of folk music doesn’t completely encompass the British Isles. Which would be a shame since Intergalactic Sailor is…
Album | Angel Olsen – All Mirrors
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‘Shut Up Kiss Me’ shaped the summer soundtrack of 2016, so much so that it’s easy to forget that Angel Olsen marches to a beat only she can hear. Following a path that doesn’t stick to the straight and narrow, she…