[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoCJNxy21nU[/embedyt] We present ‘Kana’ the second song from our session with Hickory Signals. This song features on the band’s just released album Turn to Fray, which has already been named folk album in the month in The Guardian. If…
Basking in understated poignancy, Geoff Gibbons’ Shadow of a Stone EP is a potential sleeper hit on the indie folk scene. Inundated by lush production and lyric-focused arrangements, the Vancouver singer-songwriter’s intimate knowledge of what makes contemporary folk shimmer stands to…
Unlike many acts who bill themselves as a cross between pop, folk, rock, and soul, Julia King has synthesized these genres into something cohesive and trained. Moreover, it’s undeniably her, representing a ‘Julia’ state of mind more than anything. Each…
With his debut album, Scattered Poems, Alex Dunn proudly walks in the footsteps of singer-songwriters who have laid Seattle’s unwittingly roots-laden musical foundation. A gateway of the Gold Rush, Washington has a hefty catalog of warm folk songwriting enveloped in the…
Getting your album on the shortlist for the Northern Irish Music Prize is a big deal. So big that if you’re Malojian (aka Stephen Scullion), you might suddenly find a massive mural of yourself painted on the side of the…
In the end, love is the answer. This philosophy may well be as timeless as love itself as an end-all answer to what has, is happening, and has happened. It’s no wonder that the meditative ponderance is at the center…