What with the searing heat and all that tennis hoo-ha at the weekend, your mind’s more than likely yearning for the dark chill of December: chestnuts roasting in an open microwave, heinous snowman jumpers and slipping over on ice…
To celebrate the US release of his latest album, Carry On (which has been out in the UK since March), Willy Mason has released this paper-puppet take on The Lion King.* Mason’s warm, husky vocal sails above the beats and pings…
The last time Laura Marling played the Royal Albert Hall, she was touring A Creature I Don’t Know with a crafty band, members of which had created a life-sized replica of the blancmange-shaped icon of architecture in reverence to the heavyweight venue…
Sharing’s friendly, especially when it’s a stream of a spangly new album that’s not available anywhere else until Monday, eh? Emily Barker & the Red Clay Halo release their fourth album, ‘Dear River’, on Monday 8th July, but if you…
Today is the birthday of one of the most melancholy, beautifully-spirited men in the history of the world to date. Singing Eels frontman Mark Oliver Everett a merry ditty to celebrate the occasion would be profoundly inappropriate, so instead we’ll…
Mara Carlyle’s latest recording, Befalling, sees her sing a selection of delicate wee songs (some of which are scorchingly brief) by composer Emily Hall, with lyrics from novelist Toby Litt. Delicious, classical (and, by implication, really rather classy), the mini album…
With a voice and an outlook older than the universe, Robin Pecknold has somehow managed to adopt a Benjamin-Button approach to ageing. He’s turning 27 today, according to official records, but we can be pretty certain this is nonsense. He’s…
Did you know that when he’s not writing what are likely to be remembered as some of the best lyrics of our times, Johnny Flynn’s a dab hand at putting on a dress and a feminine voice and treading…
Leanne Harte – Live @ Tamp & Stitch from Bob Gallagher on Vimeo. Dublin-based Leanne Harte already has a list of accolades as long as her rather capable arms, but for some reason her music hasn’t had the best of…
Bluesy, mellow, warm and delicious, ‘Feet on the Ceiling’ is a sexy telling of a carefree, mildly sadomasochistic affair (just a little light hair-pulling, nothing more). A couple waltz down the street into bed, golden air and light falling on…