How are we all doing out there? Still afloat? There doesn’t seem to be much sign of winter stopping anytime soon, but at least it’s provided us with the perfect excuse to stay cosied up indoors listening to new music.…
Today’s session track is ‘New Gate Stone’, another song from Bird In The Belly’s second album Neighbours and Sisters. As with their first album, Neighbours and Sisters takes traditional or overlooked stories and sets them to new music. This song…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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’…