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.…
#42 Terry Emm – Loved And Never Lost
File Terry Emm on the list of the criminally underrated. The Bedfordshire songwriter has put out two fine, fine albums of a gentle folk music which has strong echoes of the English greats, and despite a wealth of critical acclaim,…
Interview | Introducing…Megan Wyler
It’s a strong time for no-frills, ‘stripped-down’ folk, with exquisite releases this year and last from Fionn Regan, Al Lewis and Keaton Henson. Joining their ranks is Megan Wyler with her recently released second single, ‘The Fraying’, a fragile, delicate…
#41 Sasha Siem – So Polite
This brilliantly quirky little tyke from Cambridge and Harvard music graduate, Sasha Siem, is part folk, part jazz and part spoken word. Ironic, pithy, cheeky and with a perpetually raised eyebrow, it dances along to the none-too-shoddy accompaniment of the…
Album | Hiss Golden Messenger – Haw
Trying to get a handle on Hiss Golden Messenger’s fourth album isn’t easy. Named for a river – which gave its name to a now lost Indian tribe – in North Carolina, Haw meanders through an array of different styles.…