It is rare for an album to so effectively embody the mood of the location it was recorded in; yes, apart from THAT album from Bon Iver’s wood cabin. Released in 2002, James Yorkston and The Athletes’ debut album Moving…
Album | Gravenhurst – The Ghost In Daylight
Whatever else he’s been doing for the last four years, it doesn’t sound like Nick Talbot has let much light in. The Bristolian returns with his first Gravenhurst album since 2007’s The Western Lands and The Ghost In Daylight is…
Album | George Harrison – Early Takes: Volume 1
George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass was a monster of an album is almost every sense. First unleashed on the world in November 1970 as a triple LP, marrying Harrison’s beautiful compositions with Phil Spector’s wall of sound, it arrived…
Album | Hannah Cohen – Child Bride
A first listen to Hannah Cohen’s debut album Child Bride may feel making a new friend who has a familiar face. Aspects of the album clearly resemble others’ good work, but it is surely best to take in Child Bride…
Live | Noah and the Whale @ Shepherds Bush Empire
There is a stark contrast between the Noah and the Whale that first started as a young folk-pop ensemble with a love for elegant instrumentation (at the time probably one step too ambitious), and the solid and mature band of…
EP | The Staves – The Motherlode
The happy rise of folk as a commercial force in the last few years was always going to bring in some detractors. With charts in sight, there’s no doubt that those hitting them will perform the same trick as any…