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.…
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,…
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…
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…
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.…
A lot has happened to Martin McNulty Crane since he self-released his first album, Phosperescent Blues, back in 2009. He’s toured with the likes of Grizzly Bear, Shearwater, Vampire Weekend, The National and Iron & Wine, left Austin for Brooklyn,…