Author: For Folk's Sake

Album | Aldous Harding – Party

Calling Hannah Harding a folk singer really doesn’t do her justice. While being compared to the likes of Kate Bush and Scott Walker is heady company, the music  she creates distills moments of lyrical beauty and musical complexity. Under the…

Live | Novo Amor @ Hoxton Hall, London

In advance of the release of his second EP Bathing Beach, Novo Amor returned to London’s beautiful Hoxton Hall. Opening the evening was singer-songwriter Blanco White, who wowed the audience with his delicately constructed songs. Having studied the Spanish guitar…

Album Review | Mac DeMarco – This Old Dog

Mac DeMarco isn’t necessarily well known for introspective, minimalist, emotional tunes. His aura of disgust is what his critics peg him for, boxing him in as a stoner-alt music maker for the art school dropouts listening on their Urban Outfitters…

Live | Bob Dylan @ London Palladium

For someone who has been on the same tour since 1988, it seems strange that the London Palladium is a venue that Bob Dylan had never played before these three shows. Even in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Dylan said…

Album | Father John Misty – Pure Comedy

Josh Tillman is a series of contradictions. Less than completely comfortable releasing albums under his own name, early releases came out as J. Tillman, before he adopted the Father John Misty moniker. Having spent four years drumming for Fleet Foxes,…

Live | Hannah Trigwell @ St. Pancras Old Church, London

Hannah Trigwell is a singer-songwriter who has garnered much popularity through YouTube and other social media. Starting out busking on the streets of her home town of Leeds, she began recording cover songs for YouTube and eventually releasing her own…

Live | Laura Marling @ Colston Hall, Bristol

“I had no identity… I was socially bankrupt,” said Laura Marling in a recent interview. The question of identity is an intriguing one in the case of the chameleonic Marling, who has recently released her sixth studio album, Semper Femina,…