Folk behemoth Bellowhead are to release a Christmas single this year. Billed as “a proper old-fashioned sort of Christmas single but with a customary Bellowhead sort of a twist”, ‘Christmas Bells/Jingle Bells’ will be released on December 1. As regular readers…
Lover Lover’s blend of synths and harmonies is a lovely way to welcome the weekend. “If you say it’ll be alright, then I know it’ll be alright,” sings Eleanor Bodenham, as the “young, free” mantra repeats in the background. It’s…
School of Night is the solo project of The Antlers’ Darby Cicci, who describes this EP as ‘futuristic church music, mixed with sugary pop’. That seems about right, although it also sounds a bit like a daydreaming alien, or a…
Our favourite new folkies Gerard & the Watchmen released their brilliant debut album Wooden Castles this week with a triumphant sold-out show at London’s Lexington. Cureless Love is taken from the record and the lovely video was animated and directed by Tim Wheatley…
The soft-spoken folk artist and his band, Johnny Flynn & The Sussex Wit, are touring the UK this October with new album Country Mile – the fruit of two years of work squeezed into free moments between Johnny’s burgeoning acting…
Following the news that Jesca Hoop is to release an acoustic version of her album Hunting My Dress, named Undress, next year, here’s a clue as to what it might sound like. This is the track ‘Murder Of Birds’ from…