In their latest beautiful country-tinged single ‘Emily’, Cocos Lovers tackle the big stuff: y’know, love and loss, that sort of thing. Says guitarist and vocalist Will Greenham: “Emily is about a profound sadness for the people we love and leave behind…
Will Varley has carved out a successful career as a musician and writer through being hard working and personable, roaming the country playing shows to build a following and setting up Smugglers Records, a collective rooted in the ideals of…
Anybody at any one of the many folk music festivals this summer can’t have failed to notice the numbers of youngsters swanning about almost non-ironically in 1950s garb. The beatnik look is back, but the sounds, by and large, remain…
If you thought Leona Lewis singing the Snow Patrol track was the definitive song called ‘Run’, then think again. Listen to this. That’s not to say Rhodes’ track doesn’t share certain things in common with its illustrious namesake – there’s…
Born and bred in a Yorkshire mining village, Padraig Whelan makes music as honest, fresh and beautiful as the surroundings he grew up in (we’re guessing – writing this from South London, everything north of Watford sounds idyllic). Elegiac, dreamy…
It’s no secret that we think Worry Dolls are pretty special, so we’re delighted that Feldspar agree with us. The London-based five-piece have produced a series of videos filmed in empty venues, called, well, ‘Songs From Empty Venues’. In the…