The ninth studio album by the Oregon veteran marks a return to more conventional material after 2011’s Tumble Bee: Laura Veirs Sings Folk Songs for Children. If that project seemed a surprising departure for “Two Beers Veirs”, this rock-tinged set…
We’ve been lost in a world of mist for days! Everyone in Shetland said it was a shame but that’s probably just their habit. I think we all thought it was beautiful and mysterious.
Saw airplaney Fulmars all over the super-shrouded Eshaness cliffs today. Giant pointy Ganets above the wake of the ferry earlier this evening — especially cool after reading about them in the St Kilda book….
Today is Stuart Murdoch’s birthday, and although Wikipedia is more or less adamant that he’s turning 45, we all know that he’s really nineteen, scribbling in exercise books and pining away as he gazes out the window of a Glasgow…
Armed with only a guitar and a cello, husband-and-wife duo The April Maze seem to create an out-sized noise which they’ve kept a secret (from us, at least) by hiding out in their native Australia for all this time. Now,…
It’s a fairly special thing combine the lightest of touches with an epic feel, a trick Mona & Maria pull off on ‘My Sun’. While the melody and harmonies are as delicate as you would expect from a Scandinavian folk…
Icecapades, the debut album from The Lunchtime Sardine Club, pseudonym of Brighton musician Oliver Newton, comprises an intriguing array of songs and moods. The album was home-recorded over a year and a half, and right from the first, Newton reveals…