Late last month, Oxford sibling duo Catgod released a new single in the form of ‘Sleep In’. Inundated by the turbulence of uncertainty in a relationship, the tune undulates within the broad soundscape it outwardly paints, ferried forward with a…
Frank Migliorelli and The Dirt Nappers are going strong with a third album coming just around the bend. The Things You Left Behind is projected for a February release and is set to give listeners more of the soulful blend of…
Hailing from the Bailiwick of Jersey in the Channel Islands, Frankie Davies seems an unlikely candidate for country music dreams. Still, she grew up listening to country music and the hold it had on her never let go. Over the…
Seth Lakeman has a lot to live up to. It’s not every violin player who gets a call from Robert Plant as he’s driving his daughter to school and thinks it’s a prank. Despite his initial disbelief he became a…
Also known as Big Thief’s frontwoman, Adrianne Lenker is also a productive solo songwriter, and has released an album per year since 2013. However, this new record sounds like the product of a much longer time span, even despite its…
Just A Simple Soul is more than just a collection of Bert Jansch’s solo work, it’s a testament to his talent as one of the great guitarists of all time (Rolling Stone Magazine dubbed him as one of the hundred…
Laura Gibson’s fifth album, Goners, is largely about grief, not the sort of thing that immediately gets one tapping their toes. Yet from dealing with the loss of her father while only a teenager to wrestling with the idea of…
The scope of Julia Holter’s new record is immense. Frightening, in fact. She has created her own universe, much like Björk did on Homogenic or Utopia, or Bowie did on Low, or Pink Floyd did on Dark Side of the…
Right away, Roses & Cigarettes Acoustic Sessions feels like home. At the very least, it does to this humble writer, who originally hails from the exact windswept plains and rolling hills so eagerly expressed through sound with their forward-looking folk-rock aesthetic.…
Starla Starshine’s latest tune is pervaded by authenticity in a sense rarely observed, even in musical form. While, yes indeed, the indie rocker and psychedelic folkster’s transformation into both the Starshine moniker and the artistic expression to come with it…