If there’s been one constant in the Smoke Fairies’ story to date, it has been their refusal to stand still. From leaving their Sussex roots to spend time living in America and Canada before returning to London, to their frantic…
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Album | Patrick Watson – Adventures In Your Own Backyard
Falsetto voice, piano, experimentation… It’s all been done before, right? What with the Jeff Buckleys, the Rufus Wainwrights and the Bon Ivers, there really isn’t much room in the market for more. Anyone looking to venture down a similar path…
Album | Ren Harvieu – Through The Night
Ren Harvieu’s debut LP, Through The Night, lays its cards on the table almost straight away as you press play: it’s a album about romance and it’s not going to be a subtle ride. The melodrama factor is cranked up…
EP | Paul Thomas Saunders – Descartes Highlands
The latest EP from 20-year-old singer-songwriter Paul Thomas Saunders is a shimmering kaleidoscope of eerie nostalgia and twinkling pianos, which, despite its melancholy air, manages to evoke optimism and euphoria in its hypnotic beats. Named after the area on the…
New Bands Panel | Eliza Shaddad – January March EP
Eliza Shaddad is a Scottish and Sudanese singer-songwriter with influences that range from childhood days spent at English folk festivals, the underground hip-hop scene during her teens and to more recent postgraduate jazz studies at the Guildhall School of Music…
Album | Crybaby – Crybaby
Crybaby, real-name Danny Coughlan, seems very keen to be the new poster-boy for heartbroken storytelling. And with his self-titled debut, he may just achieve that status. This compact collection of poignant ballads will no doubt project Bristol-born Crybaby into the…
EP | The Son(s) – Leviathan
The Son(s) latest EP, Leviathan, is as atmospheric as they come. From beginning to end, it is quite apparent that this follow-up to their debut album was recorded in an old, empty flat during Edinburgh’s coldest winter in 50 years.…
Album | Father John Misty – Fear Fun
Joshua Tillman has left the milk-and-honey kindness of the Fleet Foxes to craft a more rebellious guise for himself as Father John Misty, a kind of lone cowboy in black. The sound will be familiar to Fleet Foxes fans, with…
Live | Simone Felice @ Pocklington Arts Centre
The last time I saw Simone Felice perform, he and his brothers were jumping around the stage at the Brudenell Social Club in Leeds – singing about chickens and turning a humble washing board into an instrument. This time, at…
Album | Lee Hazelwood – The LHI Years: Singles, Nudes and Backsides 1968-71
Lee Hazelwood has always had a sense of humour – his last album before he died was called Cake or Death after an Eddie Izzard sketch. It’s no surprise then that this reissue of some of his greatest songs is…