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…
After debut album Magpie Tess Jones returns with a new band of musicians, The Circle, in tow. Together they create a bigger, heavier rock sound that still has one eye on folk music. From the opening seconds of first track…
Hidden in the depths of a valley in the Brecon Beacons lies one of the world’s best-kept secrets. Greenman Festival celebrated its tenth year anniversary, and served to be, yet again, one of the best festivals I have undoubtedly ever been to.