The name If You Leave could suggest either anxiety or a threat, and this record’s songs explore fear in a very honest way, crawling inside the coccoons of anaemic, unready creatures, pulling them out, and putting them in the light.…
Live | Fairport Convention @ The Union Chapel, Islington
There are some abilities that all children of folkie parents have in common. Knowing the words to most of ‘Tempted and Tried’ by Steeleye Span. Being able to hold their own at a ceilidh. Having a favourite Christmas song that…
Album | Low – The Invisible Way
As if Low needed a selling point for their new record, they’ve got Jeff Tweedy on production duties. But if you’re expecting the sonic pallet of a Wilco experience a la Yankee Hotel Foxtrot you’re in the wrong place. Tweedy…
EP | Farewell J.R – Health
The most surprising fact about Farewell Jr’s debut Health EP is that it was recorded in part in Cambridge, Ireland and Australia. Surprising not for the fact that what began as Nick Rayner’s Cambridge-based solo project has so rapidly grown,…
#17 Heg & the Wolf Chorus – Cinder
Heg Doughty leads her lupine chorus with lyrics as clean and clear as crystal, producing multifarious, melodramatic folk songs. Strings and keys make for a lustrous, complex musical lanscape, home to a red-winged boy with avian aspirations and a dark heart.…
EP | The Golden Troubadours – Beautiful Revolving Jane
You could spend a long time listening to the Golden Troubadours trying to figure out where they come from. In the space of this short EP, their second, they seem to go around the world with a mix of latin…