You might expect When We Lived in the Crook of a Tree to be a collection of winsome, woolly songs about treehouses. Nope. The first words are: “There once grew a tree, ten flimsy branches on it, that used to…
There is no occasion, no moment, no second of the day that cannot be improved by Peanuts. Christmas is no different, and we would suggest that the Vince Guaraldi Trio’s soundtrack to A Charlie Brown Christmas should be a staple…
For Folk's Sake It's Christmas 2011 by The Leisure Society The Leisure Society squeezed the recording of this track – for our 2011 Christmas album – in between touring cathedrals with Laura Marling and their own European tour, pulling all-nighters…
With a new single out in January and a debut album on the horizon, we thought it was about time we caught up with Paul Thomas Saunders. Once very much a fixture of the Leeds scene, Saunders has moved to…
We are absolutely delighted to have a song from Oxford gents Stornoway on this year’s Christmas record. Gondwanaland is a beautifully wistful track about a chance encounter on an icy day. We spoke to Stornoway’s bass player Oli Steadman about…
High on the list of our favourite recent releases designed to be listened to while wearing a Christmas jumper is Emmy The Great and Tim Wheeler’s ‘This Is Christmas’. Like Santa on a deadline, it whizzes between twee fireside tunes…