Category: Records

Album | Mull Historical Society – In My Mind There’s A Room

Colin MacIntyre’s ninth studio album, and seventh as Mull Historical Society, sees the Scottish islander collaborate with a range of best-selling and award-winning authors who provided the words from which he weaved the 14 tracks on show. Several took the…

Album | Madeline Kenney – A New Reality Mind

Developed in the aftermath of a sudden and difficult break-up, it could be easy to peg Madeline Kenney’s new album as one littered with ‘I miss you’s’ and ‘you hurt me’s’; the all too familiar break-up pop which pervades much…

Album | Darlingside – Everything Is Alive

Sometimes you have to change things up, and when the pandemic struck Darlingside had to figure out a new way to work, resulting in Everything Is Alive. The old ways of recording simply wouldn’t work, and with Don Mitchell, Auyon…

Album | Lucinda Williams – Stories From a Rock N Roll Heart

At 70, Lucinda Williams is a survivor, but Stories From a Rock N Roll Heart only tells half the tale. During the pandemic she lost her home in a tornado. If that wasn’t enough, she had a debilitating stroke months…

Album | The Watson Twins – Holler

Making a record can be a frustrating experience, it can take forever to record and along the way the magic is lost. Finding the magic was at the heart of Holler, The Watson Twins’ new album. Recorded in a matter…

Album | Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit – Weathervanes

Jason Isbell is an honest man, and his new album with the 400 Unit, Weathervanes, offers an unflinching look at the modern world with a sense of honesty one rarely sees. And like any honest man, he views himself and…

Album | Bruce Cockburn – O Sun O Moon

There’s an air of playful, potential finality to Bruce Cockburn’s 38th studio album. It’s his first LP proper since 2017’s Bone On Bone, if you don’t include 2019’s instrumental Crowing Ignites. The influential Canadian troubadour may be a cult concern on our…

Album | Shirley Collins – Archangel Hill

Every generation of the Collins family has been carved from the hills of the South Downs, and it is those hills that act as a silent partner and accompaniment for Archangel Hill, the third album that folk queen Shirley Collins…

Album | Hannah Rose Platt – Deathbed Confessions

Ghosts seem to haunt every second of Hannah Rose Platt’s Deathbed Confessions. Inhabiting a widescreen wonderland, Platt creates a landscape filled with both the horror and humor that haunts listeners. Her voice, a surprisingly flexible instrument, shades these recordings in…