There is something exceptionally Icelandic about Pascal Pinon right from the start of Sundur. You can hear Sigur Ros, Björk and the fascinating island’s landscape and culture deep inside the bones of the band and the music it makes. It’s…
Whether hailed as the heir of folk jazz legends Tim Buckley and John Martyn or touted as the leader of the new generation of Cosmic Americana acts, there’s a weight of expectation on Ryley Walker’s shoulders. And there’s enough on…
Allow me to introduce the band… AnnenMayKantereit is a young German rock band, THE hope of German music perhaps. The band is already very popular, in no small part due to the singer Mr. Henning May’s distinctively rough vocals, and…
Summertime seems perfect for a dose of infectious, jaunty and well crafted rock and roll songs, and for the second summer in succession, Ezra Furman has taken up the mantle of releasing one of the ‘songs of the summer’ ™…
I’m not sure I believe Ed Harcourt when he says he’s a ‘beast of a man’, as he claims on ‘Loup Garou’, the third track of his new album, Furnaces. In my admittedly limited experience of man-beasts, they don’t go…
Massachusetts 4-piece indie folk band Darlingside were the talk of Cambridge Folk Festival a couple of weekends ago. Their first day playing outside of America saw them charm the crowd in front of Stage 2 on the Saturday afternoon, before…