It’s brave to step outside of the chaos sometimes, for there’s a comfort to be found in crowds. Josienne Clarke, armed with little more than her guitar, sought space in a remote cabin in the Scottish Highlands where, in a…
A lot has happened in the past seven years. This is the period between Neko Case’s last album Hell-On and Neon Grey Midnight Green. Not that Case hasn’t been productive in the interim, appearing on two New Pornographers albums, writing the musical score…
I think it’s fair to say that not too many albums begin with songs named after the Greek term for robust equanimity characterised by the ongoing freedom from distress and worry, but Hannah Rose Platt breaks from this on Fragile…
There are but three guarantees in life. Taxes, death and Seth Lakeman delivering magnificent albums. 13 studio albums and 23 years after he released his first solo effort, The Punch Bowl, Lakeman presents to the world a set that shows…
After 2021’s rightfully and universally acclaimed album Ignorance, Tamara Lindeman found herself interviewed by the likes The New Yorker and Pitchfork as an unlikely spokesperson on the subject of climate grief. As the plaudits rained down though, little was known of how…
Arriving four years after her debut album Hemet introduced the world to Niamh Regan’s powerful brand of quiet and powerful introspection, we receive the follow up Come As You Are. Whereas the former was recorded in studios between Galway and California, the latter…
Hot on the heels of last year’s Onliness, which saw Josienne Clarke recording, reworking and reclaiming a collection of her older songs, comes Parenthesis, I. Thirteen songs about finding who you are through the prism of where you came from and where…
When Sam Beam (the man behind the moniker Iron & Wine) was asked for the reasons why he named his seventh solo studio album Light Verse, he spoke about the process of making it “felt like coming out of a tunnel…
In a recording studio in Durham, NC just one month shy of losing their father, Aylnda Segarra – the songwriter behind the monicker of Hurray for the Riff Raff – committed to tape the most personal album they’d made to…
Since rising from the ashes of previous band Stillhouse a quarter of a century ago, Chatham County Line have been presenting their modern take on the bluegrass tradition to a devoted fan base across the world. Hiyo is their 11th…