This week it’s the turn of electronic-folk upstarts Mt. Wolf to go under the folk microscope. Based in London, each member was born by the sea, on the coasts of Guernsey, Dorset and Brighton. Prepare to get swept away…. Joanne Rowe: Hailing…
Folk too often is, by its very nature, a fairly conservative musical genre. There are enough mavericks to mix it up, of course, but when a band ambles on stage with a guitar, a fiddle and an accordian, you generally…
You may well have seen Simon Beims play somewhere, even if you don’t realise it. Whether he’s been touring with the Jeffrey Lewis Band, Herman Dune, I Was a King, or The Wave Pictures, supporting the likes of the Cribs…
Depending on where you stand, lyrics are either mere words to carry a tune or a key element – a story or sentiment necessary to make a listener connect with a song. I’ve known passionate music fans as well as…
Princess Chelsea (a.k.a. Chelsea Nikkel) has created an album like a gothic fairground: Lil’ Golden Book evokes spells or fairy tales, the scarier end of Disney, and Edward Scissorhands, mashed together with hints of Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, Deerhoof,…
It’s not often you find you have a strong opinion about every last song on an album, but that’s the case here and there’s a real risk of running out of writing space by the end of track four. Come…