Husband and wife duo Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent have both been making solo music under their own names for many years now, but it was only 2012 when they truly committed to recording and releasing as Shovels &…
Right On! is the first solo outing from jennylee, one quarter of Warpaint. As a member of a band with such a distinctive sound, you always wonder where a solo project might land – will it sound so wildly different…
Cass McCombs has existed just beneath the radar for the last decade or so – and he seems comfortable that way. His last album, 2013’s Big Wheel And Others, both delighted and befuddled with its 22 tracks which included some…
Of the lengthy amalgam of folk acts claiming to be eclectic in the world these days, Daudi Matsiko has found his own winning formula of proof in a sense that casts his individualistic stylings above your run of the mill…
When he’s not working on late-night misadventures with ex-Arab Strap frontman Aidan Moffat, prolific pianist, bassist and arranger Bill Wells is knee deep in fascinating projects like this one. It’s a simple idea – get a roomful of avant-garde artists…
If you’d asked me a couple of years ago which bands I most wanted to hear tackle a Christmas record, the Smoke Fairies would have been top of the list. There has always been something about their beautiful, ethereal music…
From winning the ‘Walk the Beat’ summer series in their home state of Michigan and working on a sophomore EP with sound engineer Bill Chrysler (Paul McCartney, John Mayer), the past year has been good to up-and-coming folk rock outlet…
You have to admire Ethan Johns. Here is a man who could very easily have spent his days in the producer’s chair, enjoying regular work from regular collaborators such as Ryan Adams, Laura Marling, Kings of Leon and Ray LaMontagne.…
Marry Waterson is aiming to sing us all into her tune with her latest, Two Wolves, featuring collaborations with Big Eyes guitarist and composer David A. Jaycock. This isn’t Waterson’s first co-operation with a fellow singer-songwriter across a full album’s…
Darren Hayman decamped to (you guessed it) Florence to record this charming collection which, surprisingly for such a prolific writer, is his first strictly solo album, finding him home alone in his hosts’ Firenze flat. Opener ‘Nuns Run The Apothecary’…