Tiny Birds, tiny portions. This London quintet deal in brevity, following up their eight-song, 25-minute debut album Hymns For The Careless with this new five-track EP. While not straying too far from the folk-pop template that has got them this…
EP | Tom Odell – Songs From Another Love
Two years ago, when I worked at former digital radio station Amazing Radio, Tom Odell and his band Tom & the Tides were a staple of the airwaves with his song ‘Spider’. This was a towering choral number with serious…
Album | Knife and Fork – The Higher You Get, The Rarer The Vegetation
Knife & Fork seem most noticed for performing as a support act for PJ Harvey, which carries some kudos, as she is basically a raven queen with shock and awe in her wings (band leader Eric Drew Feldman has a…
Interview | Introducing…Mina Tindle
We loved Mina Tindle’s eponymous debut EP, and adored her first full-length album, Taranta. Here, we get the low-down on the latest French export to tickle our fancy… Hello, please introduce yourself and your music to the uninitiated and tell…
Interview | Gilmore and Roberts
Currently riding the resurgence of traditional-sounding folk are Katriona Gilmore and Jamie Roberts, who met as music students and are now three albums into a very promising career. If you like ‘proper’ folk – and God knows we do –…
Album | Peter Broderick – These Walls of Mine
These Walls of Mine is without doubt one of the bravest, most boldy conceived albums this year and veers about as far from the standard singer-songwriter template as it is possible for a singer-songwriter to do. It’s also a crashing…