by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Album | Okkervil River | The Silver Gymnasium
The Silver Gymnasium is a misty look back in time to singer Will Sheff’s childhood growing up in the small New Hampshire town of Meriden, circa 1986. The album cover is rather wonderful in its own right, coming complete with…
by For Folk's Sake • • Comments Off on Album | Lanterns on the Lake – Until The Colours Run
Having never seen Lanterns on the Lake perform live, I’ve always found them quietly mysterious. Until the Colours Run, the follow up to the well-received Gracious Tide, Take Me Home only adds to this image. There’s still oodles of reverb…
by Lynn Roberts • • Comments Off on Listen | Stream Johnny Flynn’s new album Country Mile
You can now hear Johnny Flynn’s new record Country Mile, which is due for release on 30th September, below in its entirety. Johnny will be off on tour in support of the album next month, with a smattering of free…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Album | This Frontier Needs Heroes – Hooky
If it ain’t broke…This Frontier Needs Heroes are back with a familiar formula: a fan-funded third album continues their run of charming cosmic-folk and catchy tunes. Hooky follows on where The Future left off, a fine collection of psychedelic-infused Americana.…
by For Folk's Sake • • Comments Off on Album | Robinson – Willamina Machine
Anybody at any one of the many folk music festivals this summer can’t have failed to notice the numbers of youngsters swanning about almost non-ironically in 1950s garb. The beatnik look is back, but the sounds, by and large, remain…
by For Folk's Sake • • Comments Off on Album | The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love you – Neko Case
‘Where Did I Leave That Fire?’ asks Neko Case on the penultimate song on her sixth solo studio album, the long-awaited follow-up to 2009’s double Grammy-winning ‘Middle Cyclone’. The good news is that it burns as fiercely as ever on…
by For Folk's Sake • • Comments Off on Album | Volcano Choir – Repave
Volcano Choir’s Repave is a beautiful album, not to be taken as a collection of songs, rather to be enjoyed as one piece of music in its entirety. That said, I felt like I only understood the power in the…
by For Folk's Sake • • Comments Off on Album | Chelsea Wolfe – Pain Is Beauty
Upon hearing Pain is Beauty for the first time, even before reading in Chelsea Wolfe’s website bio that her third studio album is ‘a self-described love letter to nature’, it was clear that the essence resonating most strongly throughout is…
by For Folk's Sake • • Comments Off on Album | Lucy Ward – Single Flame
From the first drum beat Single Flame creates an intense ambience reminiscent of an emerging Florence + the Machine, using her voice as the primary instrument Lucy Ward entrances the listener with epic and satirical lyrics. The power behind ‘I…
by Ali Mason • • Comments Off on Album | The Dodos – Carrier
The Dodos have always been a band of the brain more than the heart, easier to admire than to love. They produce songs that are meticulously crafted with not a beat or a thought out of place. But there’s a…