Author: Duncan Martin

Session | The People Versus – Secret Shade of Red

As it is Valentine’s day, here’s an expression of our love for you with a gift of a relevant bonus session track from museum-pop outfit The People Versus. The band explain: The lyric “My love for you is like a…

Session | Catherine Rudie & The Kisses – Möbius Kiss

If ever there was an artist able to convince the most doubting amongst us that folk music can be made modern, daring, engaging and, quite frankly, a little weird, it might just be Catherine Rudie. In this compelling performance of…

Session | Katie Blount – Orion Sky

Some things in life are best kept simple and Katie Blount is here to prove that’s the case with this delicately understated, stripped back performance of ‘Orion Sky’. With its straightforward, unfussy chord structure and a seemingly effortless melody, Katie…

Session | Bird In The Belly – Bright Light

Before we rush headlong into the brand new decade that’s unfolding before us, let’s take a second to look back at some exciting new music released towards the end of last year. Bird in the Belly presented us with their…

Session | Boat To Row – Moth To The Light

We’re really squeezing them in today as we welcome Boat To Row round for a session to play a track from their recent album Rivers That Flow In Circles. The song is a blast of psych folk with a wonky…

Session | The People Versus – Like I’m Lonely / Driftwood

Are you aufait with ‘museum-pop’? Me neither, but I think I’d like to hear more after this session from The People Versus. Two songs for the price of one, ‘Like I’m Lonely / Driftwood’ is a fresh-out-the-box track from their…

Session | Thom Ashworth – Derry Gaol

Thom Ashworth is on a mission to prove that traditional folk can be made current, original and, perhaps most surprisingly, can be brilliantly performed on an acoustic bass guitar. In this second video from Thom’s session with us, he offers…

Session | Neev – Tunnel Vision

Today we bring you a track from emerging singer-songwriter Neev, who caught my ear on a recent BBC Introducing podcast with her debut single ‘Burning To Dust’. This isn’t that song, it isn’t even the new single, ‘Across the glass’…

Session | Antonio Lulic – Only Love Remains

This week we bring you singer-songwriter Antonio Lulic with a powerful performance of a song from his most recent EP Departures. Departures is just one of the 5 EPs Antonio has release over the last ten years, in which time…