British fans may have missed this one, which only appeared on the US edition of his covers album On Your Sleeve, but Jesse Malin has always loved a song about his hometown so he teamed up with Bree Sharp to…
Hi! Pleased to meet you. In case we haven’t met before, my name is Daniel and I am the singer, guitarist and songwriter who goes out under the name, Laish (lie-shh). I’ve been kicking around in Brighton and now London…
With such a sophisticated and varied back catalogue, Patty Griffin sounds like she’s been writing and performing her whole life. In fact, she only begun her career as an artist in the early nineties, recording her heartfelt, country-tinged debut, Living…
There’s something honest about Roo Panes’ music – he manages romanticism without melodrama, sincerity without sentimentality. Indeed Land of the Living’s opener, ‘Glory Days’, where a ukulele is strummed alongside bowed strings, serves as perfect image of what Panes has…
Devon Sproule’s lovely song about Christmases as an expat was written for For Folk’s Sake It’s Christmas 2011. Devon’s a master at optimistic pathos and her gentle vocals with jazz-tinged slides make this track just perfect.
Marika Hackman first burst on to the scene back in early 2012 with her sweet song ‘Here I Lie’, recorded for a Burberry campaign. The comparisons to Laura Marling, Joanna Newsom and Nico quickly rolled in, and it was clear…