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…
Album | Chloe Foy – Complete Fool
Category: Reviews
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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.…
Album | Kassi Valazza – From Newman Street
The physical distance from Portland, Oregon to New Orleans, Louisiana is 2,538 miles, but the psychic distance is far longer. That distance explains the story of Kassi Valazza’s new album, From Newman Street. Isolating from the outside world due to…
Album | Laura Reznek – The Sewing Room
Nomadic spirit Laura Reznek has already been on the road many times in her musical career, crossing the Atlantic and roaming the UK and mainland Europe. The Canadian-born singer-songwriter’s third album feels like a moment taken to pause, to hold…
Album | Hannah Rose Platt – Fragile Creatures
I think it’s fair to say that not too many albums begin with songs named after the Greek term for robust equanimity characterised by the ongoing freedom from distress and worry, but Hannah Rose Platt breaks from this on Fragile…