The Milk Carton Kids are Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale from suburban Los Angeles. They sing pretty and gentle close harmonies woven around their two vintage acoustic guitars with no further accompaniment, and they are very good at it. Pattengale…
#33 Luke Winslow-King – You Don’t Know Better Than Me
From out of the great musical cauldron that is New Orleans comes the fine new sound of Luke Winslow-King, a Michigan native who has been feeding on the Big Easy’s cultural gumbo for the last 12 years and is about…
#32 Mara Carlyle – I do – do not
Mara Carlyle’s latest recording, Befalling, sees her sing a selection of delicate wee songs (some of which are scorchingly brief) by composer Emily Hall, with lyrics from novelist Toby Litt. Delicious, classical (and, by implication, really rather classy), the mini album…
#31 Nancy Elizabeth – Heart
One of Nancy Elizabeth’s many talents is to create startlingly different tracks from familiar sounds. Her latest track ‘Heart’, from her upcoming third album Dancing, does exactly that: it is instantly recognisable as Nancy and yet sounds like nothing she’s…
Live | Nancy Elizabeth @ Vortex Jazz Club, London
Four years is a long time in music, and an especially long time to go without one of your favourite artists. To say Nancy Elizabeth’s return, nearly four years after the release of her second album Wrought Iron, has been…
#30 Kirsty McGee – Sandman
Kirsty McGee’s sultry ‘Sandman’ dates back to 2008 and its appearance on The Kansas Sessions, but its getting a new lease of life and a new release to mark its appearance in Danny Boyle’s new film Trance. But the truth…