by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Album | The Unthanks – In Winter
If we were drawing up a list of the artists we’d most like to hear make a seasonal record, the Unthanks would be somewhere near the top. Their rich instrumentation, careful arrangements, and beautiful harmonies are just the warming sound…
by Bob Fish • • Comments Off on Album | the innocence mission – Midwinter Swimmers
Sometimes the name of a band says it all. Exuding a childlike sense of joy and wonder, the innocence mission evoke memories and marvel on Midwinter Swimmers. Memories of days long past, and marvel that we live in a world…
by Bob Fish • • Comments Off on Album | Aisha Badru – The Sun Still Rises
Aisha Badru is an alchemist. She distills human experience with all its chaos and craziness into simple human truths as she paves a pathway to introspection. On The Sun Still Rises, only her second full-length album, she looks upon her…
by Bob Fish • • Comments Off on Album | Father John Misty – Mahashmashana
The “great cremation ground” of Father John Misty’s Mahashmashana provides Josh Tillman with a way to examine the wonderfully weird life he has lived over the past ten years. The ultimate observer, he casts a jaundiced eye at the world…
by Anna Murphy • • Comments Off on Album | Jennifer Castle – Camelot
Canadian songwriter Jennifer Castle’s seventh album Camelot is a real fusion of the fantastical and the mundane, one flowing seamlessly into the other through themes of mysticism – apt, given the mystical, legendary seat of King Arthur’s court from which…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Album | Laura Marling – Patterns In Repeat
The intimate nature of Laura Marling’s eighth studio album is apparent before she has even played a note. We hear shuffling, voices, a yelp from Marling’s infant daughter, as they get themselves arranged in the home studio where Patterns In…
by Anna Murphy • • Comments Off on Album | Ben Folds – Sleigher
Following on from the success of his last album, What Matters Most, singer-songwriter Ben Folds dishes up an early festive treat with Sleigher, a delightful assortment of original songs and reimagined Christmas classics. Most of the album is a solo…
by Bob Fish • • Comments Off on Album | Andrew Bird & Madison Cunningham – Cunningham Bird
One of the great lost treasures among record collectors is Buckingham Nicks, an album released over fifty years ago, long out of print, never officially released on CD and unavailable on streaming services like iTunes. Featuring a pre-Fleetwood Mac Lindsay…
by Bob Fish • • Comments Off on Album | The W Lovers – For a Day or a Lifetime
Fleur and Wesley Wood make an interesting couple. He’s from the state of Washington, while she hails from New Zealand. Since meeting in 2014, they have created a musical blend marrying acoustic instruments with heartfelt lyrics and pure vocal harmonies.…
by Bob Fish • • Comments Off on Album | Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – Live From The Ryman Vol. 2
The musical path Jason Isbell has taken isn’t recommended. At the age of 22 he joined the Drive-By Truckers, ending up addicted to alcohol and coke, eventually being asked by the rest of the band to leave. Sober for over…