Sparrow & The Workshop will release their latest album, Murderopolis, on May 27. Their third effort follows on from 2011’s Spitting Daggers and sees the Glasgow-based three-piece move further into darker and louder territory. While Muderopolis is a step away…
#44 Dark Dark Dark – What I Needed
What is it about Nona Marie Invie’s voice that makes it so startlingly beautfiul? Its lack of pretension? Its unwavering tone? Or its quiet strength? Whatever it is, it’s showcased to perfection on new song ‘What I Needed’ – a…
News | Staves complete Cambridge line-up
The Staves headed the final wave of acts to be added to the Cambridge Folk Festival as the complete line-up was revealed today. The trio will play Main Stage 1 on the Sunday of the event which runs from July…
Album | Alessi’s Ark – The Still Life
It would be over the top to suggest that, at the age of 22, it was make-or-break time for Alessi Laurent-Marke. But there is no denying that Alessi’s Ark needed a third album of substance, something to erase words like…
Album | Haiku Salut – Tricolore
According to Haiku Salut themselves, the sound they make is “Baroque-Pop-Folktornic-Neo-Classical-Something-Or-Other”. Whatever that is, they can safely claim to be Derbyshire’s premier exponents of it – a fact demonstrated on Tricolore, which helpfully comes with a series of wonderful drawings…
#43 Anne-Marie Sanderson – Follow You
However you go about getting there, it’s a long way from London to Portland, Oregon. But it’s even further if you go via busking stints in France and what we’re told was a time spent yodelling in the Swiss Alps.…