by Mark Buckley • • Comments Off on Album | Midlake – For The Sake of Bethel Woods
We all know the old saying “never judge a book by its cover” but does the same extend to albums? A lot of us play music these days through streaming services and probably don’t pay too much attention to album…
by Mark Buckley • • Comments Off on Album | Hurray for the Riff Raff – Life on Earth
2022 promises to bring a host of new beginnings as the world emerges from two years under the pandemic’s thumb. The world is a very different place from the one that was present last time Alynda Segarra’s band Hurray for…
by Mark Buckley • • Comments Off on EP | Josienne Clarke – I Promised You Light
In August last year, Josienne Clarke emerged from the fog that she had lived in for over a decade. In her fight to be recognised for work that she’d written, she’d been labelled a troublemaker. Instead of allowing this to…
by Mark Buckley • • Comments Off on Album | Jake Xerxes Fussell – Good And Green Again
It’s about time that the wider world was introduced to the wonder that is Jake Xerxes Fussell – a song collector raised in Columbus, Georgia and the son of a folklorist and curator is his own right, Fred C. Fussell.…
by Mark Buckley • • Comments Off on EP | Mr. Alec Bowman_Clarke – A Place Like Home
One of the few things that truly helped me through the first few months of the original lockdown all that time ago was Mr. Alec Bowman’s debut album I Used to be Sad but Then I Forgot – an album…
by Mark Buckley • • Comments Off on Album | Jason Isbell – Georgia Blue
Inspiration for albums can come when you least expect them and for Jason Isbell, sitting at home on Election Day 2020, this is no exception. “Georgia Blue is a labor of love,” Isbell said. “On election day 2020, when I…
by Mark Buckley • • Comments Off on Album | Josienne Clarke – A Small Unknowable Thing
Josienne Clarke has fought to be given the credit her work has deserved for years. It’s been exhausting and she admits that she had to be explicit in explaining how much her name and talent warranted recognition, as if she…
by Mark Buckley • • Comments Off on Album | Peggy Seeger – First Farewell
Her voice is clarity personified. She still sounds playful but laced in wisdom. Peggy Seeger might be American by birth, but has lived in Britain for over half her life. At the age of 85, with 68 years of recording…
by Mark Buckley • • Comments Off on Album | The Weather Station – Ignorance
Nearly 15 years have passed since the actor Tamara Lindeman unveiled her musical project The Weather Station to the world. Now she returns with her first recordings since the self-titled effort back in 2017. To say it’s been worth the wait would be…
by Mark Buckley • • Comments Off on Album | James Yorkston and the Second Hand Orchestra – The Wide, Wide River
“I hope I can tell you that I love you, when you are too old to be told” – Struggle An album about the ageing process, past loves and friends who are no longer with us, The Wide, Wide River…