The Drive-By Truckers’ 10th studio album captures the sound of a group rediscovering the fun in making music. Because the three years since the release of Go-Go Boots have largely been anything but for Patterson Hood and his once merry…
We’re not entirely sure what a post-apocalyptic alt-folk three-piece is, but apparently Until The Bird are one. With roots in Bristol, Canterbury and Lithuania, they are certainly a cosmopolitan bunch, but their sound is one steeped in folk traditions. ‘Nightingales’…
Terry Emm continues to drip feed songs from his new record, which is due later in the year. ‘Starlight’, out now as a digital single, is the third song we’ve heard from the album of the same name, channelling the…
The Winter Olympics, complete as they were with a Jamaican bobsleigh team, have been and gone, but the time is right all the same for a new song by the name of Cool Runnings. Dream-pop merchants Tashaki Miyaki are only…
From out of Los Angeles, California comes Alana Amram with her Rough Gems. ‘Should I Go Now’ is taken from their upcoming record Spring River, and showcases their warm, rich sound. A proper country song, if it feels like its…
No 9. – Born Standing Up from Born Standing Up on Vimeo. From out of Oxford, Mississippi come Born Standing Up, who have finished work on their debut album, recorded all over the Magnolia State, from their bedroom to a…
For The Unknown by Iñigo Ugarteburu For The Unknown is a solo work from Inigo Ugarteburu, a man who boasts a lengthy list of former and current bands. Yet he’s hardly alone on this new work, with each track recorded…
Shonna Tucker & Eye Candy – A Tell All Jason Isbell’s Southeastern is one of the great undersung albums of 2013 – just ask Bruce Springsteen. Now his ex-wife Shonna Tucker is the next to try her hand at a…
Scottish ensemble Broken Records are ready to return with their third album Weights And Pulleys later this year, and will precede the new record with the Toska EP next month. The title track is an introspective piece, powered by the…
Suntrapp, the indie-folk project of Jake Houlsby, return with ‘New Morning’, recorded over two days at Camden’s Roundhouse as part of the 30/30 project. The new single, the follow-up to the delightful ‘All The Seas’, is released on February 17.