There is DIY, and then there is Traverse City, Michigan-based folk band The Accidentals. The youthful trio, founded by Katie Larson and Savannah Buist while still in high school, practically does it all when it comes to its music. Beside…
Nashville-based guitarist William Tyler will return next month with Modern Country, and it finds him making a significant shift in gears from 2013’s Impossible Truth. While that first collection veered between towering epics and more pastoral folk tunes, Modern Country…
I had a sneaking suspicion that the evening, set in the basement of a secluded private members club in Shoreditch, The Kings Head, was going to be a showcase of great music, for two reasons. Firstly, curated by Mahogany,…
Karl Blau sets out his stall wonderfully on the opening track of his latest record. He has recorded around 40 albums over an indie-rock career spanning around 20 years and has now re-designed himself as a country crooner. That it…
3 years on from the heavenly Nepenthe comes another instalment in what is becoming a familiar expedition to spectacular terrains. Will is a vehicle for voice, strings, and consuming electronic flourishes that combined take a hold of the listener. Barwick…
Raw and ready, Margaret Glaspy’s ‘Emotions and Math’ is an unexpected earworm. Its slacker vibe loosely masks an seriously well-honed sound which Glaspy has been developing for several years since relocating to the east coast of the US from her…