When a band like The Leisure Society releases their fourth album, there’s bound to be slight trepidation. After being lauded by critics for their first three releases and being counted among Brian Eno and Ray Davies favourite bands, there’s a lot of pressure…
After his debut Becoming A Jackal and the harder sounds of Awayland, Conor O’Brien’s latest offering is carefully intimate and stripped-down, recorded in his home studio. Opening song ‘Courage’ is characteristically stoical/masochistic: the knowledge that life is not always easy is framed as ‘sweet relief’.…
A new video for Waxahatchee’s single Under a Rock has just been released. Originally the brainchild and solo project of Katie Crutchfield, Waxahatchee’s new video features a five-strong full band line up. The single will be released on May 10th, and…
I hadn’t heard Benjamin Clementine before this album, but it’s pretty apparent that he’s a star, often compared to Nina Simone in his compelling delivery and stage presence. At Least For Now opens with ‘Winston Churchill’s Boy’: beginning just with…
Folk prodigy Jenny Lysander is set to release her debut Album, Northern Folk, on April 27th. Lysander has previously released an EP, entitled Lighthouse, from which a single, ‘Dancing on the Edge’, was released to a good reception. The Sweden native’s gentle…
In the nearly 20 years since their debut, Tucson group Calexico have made some outstanding albums, weaving together roots sounds, Americana and Tex-Mex. On their first album since 2012’s New Orleans-themed Algiers, they make what is (surprisingly, given their influences)…