Michigan artist Ben Schneider’s debut album as Lord Huron, Lonesome Dreams, was all about wide open spaces, its cover depicting a lone rider peering into a starless desert night. Based on a Western pulp fiction concept it found our hero…
Once, every two or three years, an artist comes along so fully formed and talented that they fast become one of your favourite musicians, and when Emily Barker, supported by the very talented multi-instrumentalists of the Red Clay Halo, released…
Rarely has a record been more appropriately named than Joy, the third album from welsh duo Paper Aeroplanes. From opening track ‘Good Love Lives On’ to the concluding ‘Goldrush’, Sarah Howells and Richard Llewellyn lead the listener through an album of bright optimism,…
Josh Rouse approached The Embers of Time, his 11th studio album, at something of a turning point. Facing a mid-life crisis after ten years as an ex-pat in his adopted Spanish homeland coupled with the strains of raising a young…
Sufjan Stevens’ latest record arrives half a decade on from his last, The Age of Adz, an unprecedented break for a man who once promised he would keep himself busy for a lifetime by recording an album about every US…
Having been touted as the ‘new’ Lana Del Ray, Hannah Cohen returns with the follow up to her 2012 release Child Time with a much more stylised, bolder release in Pleasure Boy. On a base level, it is a record…