Put two uber-talented 20-year-olds together and what do you get? Well in this case it’s a tricycle-filled music video in which every frame and note is a beaut. Artistic wonderwoman Anika Mottershaw and dream-folk darling Alessi Laurent-Marke got together to…
The Shee
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…