It is always pleasing to see a New Bands Panel graduate – especially one you enjoyed at the time – return with a full album, and so it proves as well-travelled American Erica Buettner’s True Love And Water reaches us.…
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Album | Ane Brun – It All Starts With One
Despite putting out five studio albums, working with the likes of Peter Gabriel and Ron Sexsmith and receiving two Norwegian Grammys, Ane Brun (real name Ane Brunvoll) has flown under the UK radar for some time. This might all be…
Album | Mat Gibson – Forest Fire
Mat Gibson’s eagerly awaited follow-up to the acclaimed debut Home Movie has come in the form of the wonderful Americana mini-album, Forest Fire. Aided by his brilliant Ryan Adams-esque voice and emotive story-telling, Gibson has created a collection of songs…
Album | Summer Camp – Welcome To Condale
Partially-funded by fans using the PledgeMusic site, Welcome to Condale is the debut album from Summer Camp, made up of duo Elisabeth Sankey and Jeremy Warmsley. Treats such as a batch of Elisabeth’s brownies or Jeremy’s books were the incentives…
Singles round-up | Los Campesinos!, The Miserable Rich, Grass House, Lupen Crook, Ellen & The Escapades
Los Campesinos! – Hello Sadness Heading up the singles round-up this week is the title track from Los Campesinos!’ forthcoming album Hello Sadness. Nearly every song on that album is catchy enough for its own release but perhaps a little…
Album | Shelby Lynne – Revelation Road
Since 2008’s delightful ode to Dusty Springfield, Just a Little Lovin’, released on Lost Highway, Shelby Lynne has retreated from the limelight she fought so hard to find. She quit the major labels who had eventually picked her up after…
Album | Meg Baird – Seasons On Earth
Meg Baird seems ready to give a solo career a serious go. When the Espers vocalist took time out between the band’s second and third albums to release 2007 debut Dear Companion, it almost had the feel of a one-off…
EP | Goodnight Lenin – The Wenceslas Square
The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel: Goodnight Lenin wear their influences proudly on their sleeves, like shoulder patches holding a worn out jacket together. It still fits and looks rather cool, but you can’t help wondering if it’s seen…
Album | I’m Kingfisher – Arctic
Previously best known for its musical exports in the field of metal, up-tempo indie-pop and…well, The Cardigans, Sweden now has a second bona fide folk hero to call its own. Like the Tallest Man on Earth, I’m Kingfisher is the…
EP | To Kill A King – My Crooked Saint
Sometimes it just clicks: one song, one listen, and you know a band will grace your favorites list. That’s the experience I had with To Kill a King, the latest Communion artist to tickle my fancy. The Virgin-released My Crooked…