Remember that favourite jumper you used to wear all the time? The one that is in every photo from 4-5 years ago, and which now is probably lying at the bottom of the wardrobe, just waiting to be put on…
Album | M. Ward – More Rain
Category: Records
Album | Treetop Flyers – Palomino
The release of Palomino by Treetop Flyers is something of a miracle. Since winning the Glastonbury Festival Emerging Talent Competition in 2011, and the release of their first album The Mountain Moves two years later it should have been a…
Album | Richmond Fontaine – You Can’t Go Back If There is Nothing to Go Back To
Richmond Fontaine are back. After forming the Delines and releasing Colfax in 2014, Willy Vlautin returns with Richmond Fontaine’s tried and trusted recipe. It’s a winning formula, and even if this new record contains few surprises, that’s not going to…
Album | Loretta Lynn – Full Circle
Of all of the clichés that plague the ears since birth for the majority of us fine denizens of Earth, one old saying that rings the most true is “Age is just a number.” At 83 years young, Loretta Lynn…
Album | Willie Nelson – Summertime: Willie Nelson Sings Gershwin
Willie Nelson needs no introduction. By now he has become a part of your understanding of contemporary folk, country and blues music. But Summertime is no ordinary Willie Nelson record, because his latest studio release is a splendid foray into…
Album | Mairearad Green – Summer Isles
Mairearad Green has been a regular on the folk music scene for years now playing with the likes of Box Club, Mairearad and Anna, with guitarist Anna Massey, and the poozies. Summer Isles is an ode to the islands near…
Album | Lily and Madeleine – Keep it Together
Lily and Madeleine Jurkiewicz, sisters from Indianapolis, appear to have a knack for delivering consistently high quality records, sung with a breathy style that is beautiful to listen to. Keep it Together is their third LP, and stands alongside their…
Album | Lionlimb – Shoo
When singer-songwriter Stewart Bronaugh quit his job as a day labourer in both Chicago and San Francisco and returned to his native Nashville, he decided to resurrect a project he’d originally started back in 2010. He hooked up with drummer…
Album | Steve Mason – Meet The Humans
Steve Mason’s plumbed the range of human emotions in recent years. Once of High Fidelity-featuring, boiler-suited experimentalists The Beta Band, his last album was 2013’s double-length Monkey Minds In The Devil’s Time. That was a skulking, snarling, dog of a…
Album | Mothers – When You Walk A Long Distance You Are Tired
Birthed in Athens, Georgia, in the shadow of alternative heroes Neutral Milk Hotel and alt-country dons the Drive-By Truckers, Mothers was originally conceived as front woman’s Kristine Leschper’s solo project whilst studying printmaking back in 2013. After a bout of…