by Joe Sweeting • • Comments Off on EP | Daughter – 4AD Session
After the success of last year’s If You Leave, and following a recent run of shows supporting indie darlings The National on their US tour, Daughter release a five track EP which sees them reworking select songs from their debut…
by Dominic J Stevenson • • Comments Off on Album | Simone Felice – Strangers
When Simone Felice left the band of his siblings The Felice Brothers he made a brave decision. They had made a near classic in Yonder Is The Clock, some five years ago now. Much has changed for Simone since, not…
by Ali Mason • • Comments Off on Album | Paul Thomas Saunders – Beautiful Desolation
It can be hard sometimes to put your finger on exactly why you like an album. It’s enough, perhaps, that it simply demands to be listened to over and over again. It’s almost impossible to imagine anyone hearing Beautiful Desolation…
by For Folk's Sake • • Comments Off on EP | Glass Ankle – Fragments
Fragments is a fitting title for this debut EP from Manchester-based Glass Ankle. A mixed and contemplative bag, it doesn’t always hit the mark, but it’s definitely got an assortment of shiny treats to entice you. A blending of some…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Album Round-up | Hurray for the Riff Raff, Alana Amram & The Rough Gems, and Joana Serrat
Hurray for the Riff Raff – Small Town Heroes Alynda Lee Segarra’s affinity for the old-time sounds of New Orleans is well-established four albums in to the life of her occasionally ramshackle ensemble Hurray for the Riff Raff, and so…
by Joe Sweeting • • Comments Off on Album | S. Carey – Range of Light
This past winter, I sat down and read a biography on Bon Iver, entitled Bon Iver-Good Winter, written by Mark Beaumont. Whilst it was all very interesting learning about how Justin Vernon went from studying religion at university to creating…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Album | Stone Jack Jones – Ancestor
Descending from a long line of coal miners, when Stone Jack Jones came down the mountains of West Virginia he found himself a constant misfit – he was rejected for military service in Vietnam, and instead pursued careers ranging from…
by For Folk's Sake • • Comments Off on Album | House of Hats – This Love
Brighton four-piece House of Hats draw in the folky flavours of the likes of early Fleetwood Mac and Wishbone Ash, melding a chorus of vocal harmonies and picked acoustic guitars in their debut album, This Love. While the songs are…
by Helen • • Comments Off on EP | Marika Hackman – Deaf Heat
Deaf Heat opens with the unflinchingly peculiar ‘Tongues’: darkly modulating harmonies bend two minutes into a bottomless eternity of human voices, cutting through hearts like ice. Lead track ‘Deep Green’ thunders in after the ethereal strangeness of ‘Tongues’, imagining the body as…
by For Folk's Sake • • Comments Off on EP | Broken Records – Toska
Listening to Broken Records Toska, the Edinburgh based bands first release in four years, it strikes me that there are two defined (though not necessarily mutually exclusive) routes available when putting together an EP. The first option is to release…