by Anna Main • • Comments Off on Album | James McMurtry – The Black Dog and The Wandering Boy
With The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy, Texas-born James McMurtry bursts back onto the scene four years since his last album with a voice reminiscent of the great Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash. This new chapter features the likes…
by Bob Fish • • Comments Off on Album | S.G. Goodman – Planting by the Signs
When the whirlwind takes over it blows with unbelievable force, leaving an artist caught up in forces beyond their control. Two years of constant touring had that effect on S.G. Goodman. Getting back to rural western Kentucky she got caught…
by Bob Fish • • Comments Off on Album | Jess Kerber – From Way Down Here
Jess Kerber has a way of tricking you into thinking she’s one thing, before you realise she’s really far more than the sum of her parts. She picked up her first guitar in Nashville at the age of 12, yet…
by Bob Fish • • Comments Off on Album | Chloe Foy – Complete Fool
Four years used to be a lifetime in the music business. The Beatles were releasing albums every three months. Though it’s taken four years for Chloe Foy to offer Complete Fool, it was worth the wait. This is a very…
by Bob Fish • • Comments Off on Album | Alan Sparhawk – With Trampled By Turtles
On the face of it, Alan Sparhawk and Trampled by Turtles could be the most unlikely combination of all time. Sparhawk’s last couple of albums with Low, especially Hey What, went to musical extremes, while Trampled by Turtles seem to…
by Hannah Kane • • Comments Off on Album | caroline – caroline 2
Three years after their sensational debut album caroline return with caroline 2, a stunning blend of artificial and analogue production with the emotional turmoil we all go through daily. I sat down to listen to this album in the sunshine, excited…
by Bob Fish • • Comments Off on Album | Snowpoet – Heartstrings
Snowpoet is a bit of a misnomer, there is nothing cold about this band. Lauren Kinsella’s voice combined with the keyboards of Chris Hyson reach into the soul of sounds, creating a warmth and magic not often associated with electronic…
by Bob Fish • • Comments Off on Album | Kira Skov – What Ties Us Together, Will Keep Us Apart (Music from the Original TV Series Generations – 2025)
Family secrets probably should never see the light of day. Once they are revealed everything, and everyone, changes. Kira Skov’s new album, What Ties Us Together, Will Keep Us Apart is such a story, the soundtrack to a Danish TV…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Album | Patch & The Giant – Fragments
Eight years after their debut All That We Had We Stole, Patch & The Giant are back. Fragments was not supposed to take this long. This collection was nearing completion in early 2020 before the world got turned upside down.…
by Bob Fish • • Comments Off on Box set | Pentangle: The Albums: 1968-1972
The description of Pentangle as a British folk band has always been as misleading as it is inaccurate. Spanning musical genres, while Bert Jansch and John Renbourn were steeped in folk, they had roots in skiffle, ragtime, and medieval forms.…