We remember when these four were barely out of short trousers, playing teensy tiny gigs in the backrooms of West London pubs and getting confused about shorthand. Now look at them, kicking Michael Bublé off the number one spot in…
Dear River, the fourth album by Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo (EB&TRCH) and their first for Linn Records, is that rarest of records: an instant classic. With not a gram of filler, it’s the kind of album that…
What with the searing heat and all that tennis hoo-ha at the weekend, your mind’s more than likely yearning for the dark chill of December: chestnuts roasting in an open microwave, heinous snowman jumpers and slipping over on ice…
If there has been a quiet revolution in folk music in the last maybe three years – and I do not claim for a second that folk music could do a revolution quietly – it’s the re-emergence of close harmony…
Neko Case is to play a headline show at London’s Forum in December. The American singer-songwriter and New Pornographer, whose new album The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You is out…
Jay Chakravorty is the man behind Cajita and, following support from the likes of Tom Robinson on 6 Music, the multi-instrumentalist is releasing his debut LP, Tiny Ghosts. Combining acoustic guitar, sweeping electronica and touching string arrangements, this is minimalist…