When it comes to describing CN Lester’s music, there aren’t enough adjectives synonymous with ‘gorgeous’. We ‘re only resisting that much maligned phrase ‘achingly beautiful’ by sitting on our hands. Inadequate adjectives aside, Aether, the second album from the artist,…
Anglo-Australian band Owl & Mouse began as a solo effort from singer and ukelele player Hannah Botting, who released her EP One through Haircut Records back in 2011. In the intervening years, she’s been joined by Jen Botting, Emma Winston…
First Aid Kit have been charming us with their perfect harmonies and earnest folk songs for years now, but something about Stay Gold feels different. Confident. Mature. The duo that brought us ‘Emmylou’ and ‘I Met Up With the King’…
Just for a split second, I thought I had made a mistake and was listening to the wrong album. Surely the ugly squall of loud, distorted electric guitar which cascaded through my speakers had nothing to do with Jessica Lea…
Billie Marten is already fast becoming a bright, new presence in festivals and venues across the country – and she’s only 14 years old. Despite this, her songs contain a beauty and world weary maturity that has the ability to…
Three years ago, the Secret Sisters arrived with their thoroughly charming self-titled debut. Putting their blood harmonies to devastating effect, they whistled through an array of country standards while offering only two of their own compositions. The fact that one…
The term “break-up album” has been bandied around a lot recently. Coldplay’s Ghost Stories was teed up as the record to spill the beans on Chris Martin’s uncoupling, conscious or otherwise, from Gwyneth Paltrow, while Jack White and Dan Auerbach…
As their name might indicate, the Cadbury sisters promise a sweet intensity from their music, with its three part female harmonies and emphasis on plucked acoustic melodies. However, repeated listens to their new EP reveals a pleasingly dark bitterness, recorded…
Swopping his familiar position behind the mixing desk to the recording studio himself, Ethan Johns, with a production CV boasting the likes of Kings of Leon, Laura Marling and Ryan Adams to name just a few, has stepped to the…
This is a gem of a record. Pure, simple and undeniable. It took Scottish six-piece Broken Records three years to make their third album, and it sounds like every second of it was time well spent. As with their previous…