Anne Marie Almedal’s Memory Lane is stunning from start to finish. For those of you who love nothing more than listening to folk at its most rustic and quaint, then look no further than this record. Blending the sounds of…
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Album | Quickbeam – Quickbeam
Quickbeam’s debut album is all about gentle melodies and lush strings. Although the vocals of both Monika Gromek and Andrew Thomson carry these songs, it is the strings that bring them to life, that make you know the debut album…
Album | Tom Odell – Long Way Down
I was quite excited for this release, having highly commended Odell’s EP, Songs for Another Love, back in late 2012. That was a promising four-track sampler of the sensitive heartbreak tunes to come – both stomping piano heavy numbers and…
EP | Lily & Madeleine – The Weight Of The Globe
On paper, there are enough warning signs about Lily & Madeleine that you could be forgiven for being a touch suspicious about their music: a bonny pair of teenage sisters hitting a post-Staves landscape with a harmony-laden YouTube hit, a slick…
Album | Ralfe Band – Son Be Wise
Ralfe Band’s Son be Wise is a contradictory thing. A brooding, occult record driven through with pop hooks and fantastical shimmers. It’s somehow irresistibly danceable and irrepressibly dark. It’s one of those records that’s totally engrossing until it’s finished, when…
Album | Houndmouth – From The Hills Below The City
Folk? Well, no, not really. But folksy and bluesy and rootsy and thoroughly good fun. From The Hills Below The City is the debut album by Houndmouth, a band from New Albany, Indiana, just across the river from Louisville, Kentucky,…
Listen | Debut album from Field Report
In his review earlier this week, Max Raymond described the debut album from Field Report – a band put together by Justin Vernon’s former bandmate Chris Porterfield – as ‘captivating’ in their blend of a ‘warm, gorgeous aesthetic and Porterfield’s…
Album | Georgia Ruth – Week of Pines
Georgia Ruth has had a busy few months, working with Guillemots on new material as well as appearing with Pen Pastwn, the new band from Richard James of Gorky’s Zygotic Monkey. Now she’s releasing her own solo album, Week Of…
Album | Field Report – Field Report
Christopher Porterfield might be a name familiar to those who have an encyclopedic knowledge of the Bon Iver timeline – he used to be in a band with Justin Vernon, DeYarmond Edison, before going their separate ways. Whilst Vernon found…
EP | Sarah Hayes – Mainspring
When Louis Abbott was explaining how Admiral Fallow’s second album had come to have on it so many new sounds, he told us it was because his bandmates continued to surprise him with their array of abilities. And just in…