London-based Emperor Yes are Ash Gardner, Hugo Sheppard and Adam Betts. Their music revolves around themes of science fiction and psychedelic pop. We asked them to record the closing track for our record, and the result was the Time Frog…
Sumie’s eponymous new album shows off an array of haunting melodies, her voice floating on top of intricate trance-inducing broken guitar chords. An exercise in the stripped down, most of the tracks feature only her vocals and guitar, with occasional…
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…