With a self-titled debut and new album Decadence under their belts the individually musically accomplished, largely Scottish, all-woman six-piece seemed worth a listen… Chris Belson: It is said that whenever a group of the beautiful and otherworldly Shee appear to…
Album: Bright Eyes – The People’s Key
If you’re reading this, chances are you aren’t new to the whole Bright Eyes thing. You probably aren’t looking to discover your next musical man-crush. What you want to know is what you always want to know when Conor Oberst…
James Apollo’s top 5 British folk artists
Nomadic Americana artist James Apollo is over in the UK ahead of the release of his second album available to us Brits, ‘Born Lucky’. It’s a compilation spanning his 6-year career. To celebrate his visit to this fair isle, he picked…
Album: Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo – Almanac
Almanac, Emily Barker’s third album, sees her once again working with her backing band The Red Clay Halo. Despite award wins in her native Australia and even a BAFTA and Royal Television Society award for composing the theme to critically…
Karenin’s Smile
This Peterborough band have only been playing together for a couple of years and already have released a debut EP, got to the semi-finals of Future Radio’s Next Big Thing, and got some scrummy BBC airplay. They are backed by the…
10 questions with… The Secret Sisters
We are Laura and Lydia Rogers, two sisters from Muscle Shoals, Alabama, who sing early country, folk, Americana, and gospel music. We are 24 and 22, respectively. We both sing and play guitar during our performances, and have been likened to the Everly Brothers, the Louvin Brothers and the Andrews Sisters.