Long-standing FFS favourites the Frisbys release their new EP on Friday, with a sold-out launch party the following evening, and it continues the high-quality offerings we’ve become accustomed to. The six-track offering opens with their recent double A-side single, ‘Born…
Canadian country singer Lindi Ortega released her seventh studio album, Faded Gloryville, in September last year. Working with co-producers John Paul White (ex-Civil Wars) and Ben Tanner of Alabama Shakes, Ortega introduced something of a Muscle Shoals feel to the…
On Jet Plane and Oxbow, Shearwater sound a little like a-ha. The more electronic approach, the vocals, the fundamental feeling and structure of the opening tracks sends us back to the mid to late 80s. But their ninth studio album…
Just 18 months after one of her greatest achievements, Lucinda Williams returns with The Ghosts of Highway 20, a meaty concept album which the Louisiana songwriter has not merely gotten her teeth into but excelled at. Her list of accomplishments…
Will Oldham has been scratching his name (or one of several others including Palace Brothers, Palace Music and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy) into the tree trunks of indie, folk and country for over two decades. Rooting his often dark, sometimes funny,…
Snowpoet is one of many diverse projects involving the prolific Lauren Kinsella, a Dublin-born, London-based singer, performer and even lecturer, here united with bassist Chris Hyson for an unusual, uneven but at times beguiling first full-length album. Fusing traditional singer-songwriter…