Okay, let’s get this out of the way straight off the bat: this is not a folk album, and I’m not quite sure why it’s been sent our way. I’m delighted it has, though, as it is a worthy follow-up…
Album | Goldheart Assembly – Long Distance Song Effects
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Album | Tom Russell (with the Norwegian Wind Ensemble) – Aztec Jazz
Ever the eccentric, it almost seems on this occasion as though Russell has set out to collate the least appealing set of words ever to appear on an album cover. Long-term devotees will not be put off, though, and nor…
News | Mumford & Sons beat Bublé to Number 1
We remember when these four were barely out of short trousers, playing teensy tiny gigs in the backrooms of West London pubs and getting confused about shorthand. Now look at them, kicking Michael Bublé off the number one spot in…
Album | Emily Barker & the Red Clay Halo – Dear River
Dear River, the fourth album by Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo (EB&TRCH) and their first for Linn Records, is that rarest of records: an instant classic. With not a gram of filler, it’s the kind of album that…
Album | Lady Maisery – Mayday
If there has been a quiet revolution in folk music in the last maybe three years – and I do not claim for a second that folk music could do a revolution quietly – it’s the re-emergence of close harmony…
Album | Cajita – Tiny Ghosts
Jay Chakravorty is the man behind Cajita and, following support from the likes of Tom Robinson on 6 Music, the multi-instrumentalist is releasing his debut LP, Tiny Ghosts. Combining acoustic guitar, sweeping electronica and touching string arrangements, this is minimalist…
Album | Harry Mundy – Colour Myself Back In
London’s Harry Mundy is far from alone among English musicians who look across the Atlantic for their inspiration, but the story behind his debut album Colour Myself Back In seems to be one of those too-good-to-be-true tales from a land…
EP | Keston Cobblers’ Club – A Scene Of Plenty
It is said that many years ago in the village of Keston, in the London Borough of Bromley, the local cobbler would spend the evenings playing his fiddle to the raucous village rabble. The music he played was so foot-stomping…
Album | Jon Byrne – Built By Angels
Barrow-in-Furness, the shipbuilding ‘cul-de-sac town’ of Cumbria is, by his own admission, responsible for shaping many of Jon Byrne’s tales. On his impressive first album, It’s Boring Being in Control, these were tales of a working-class existence consisting of neighbours…
EP | Nick Mulvey – Fever To The Form
Nick Mulvey’s new EP opens with a riff very similar to the first album of a fledgling Laura Marling. But once Mulvey is under way his own sound bursts through, crushing previous allusions to the current poster girl of folk.…