Montparnasse Musique have announced their debut album Archeology on Real World and their first single ‘Bonjour’ is the perfect gateway into their world, welding club electronics and traditional African rhythms, with a potent visual to boot.
August 2022
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Richard Thompson releases Live From Honolulu featuring Danny Thompson on double bass and Michael Jerome on Percussion. It features thirteen tracks including Mingus Eyes, Misunderstood, Shoot Out The Lights and more.
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Earlier this year, Deer Scout, the alias of songwriter Dena Miller, delivered her remarkable debut album Woodpecker. Today, she shares her cover of Kate Bush’s ‘Suspended In Gaffa’, also our Song of the Day.
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Robert Leslie made his name on the streets of New York. Despite this, Halfway Home, his fourth album, was produced by one of music’s heaviest hitters, Perry Margouleff, and it features Tony Garnier and Scarlett Rivera (both Bob Dylan veterans).
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Sairie share their video for ‘One More Kiss Dear’, originally from the film Blade Runner. It features on their forthcoming EP of film music The Cinder Sheet which is released on 23rd September.
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We catch up with Angeline Morrison at Sidmouth Folk Festival to talk about her forthcoming new album “The Sorrow Songs: Folk Songs of Black British Experience”, being released on Topic Records in October and more.
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Andrew Combs’s latest album ‘Sundays’ was written on the heels of a mental breakdown which found him turning to transcendental meditation to find balance. Watch his video for ‘Anna Please’, inspired by Ingmar Bergman’s claustrophobic psychodrama Cries and Whispers.
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Hiss Golden Messenger releases the first in a series of live releases ‘Wise Eyes’
by KLOF Staffby KLOF StaffRecorded earlier this year at The Neptune, Seattle, Hiss Golden Messenger has released “Wise Eyes”, the first in a series of live releases. The 17-track album includes deep cuts and crowd favourites, plus barn-burning renditions of Merle Haggard’s “Mama Tried” and the Grateful Dead’s “Bertha.”
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Hark The Voice That Sings For All is a terrific album. It’s Alison O’Donnell’s exhortation to listen. She is the archetypal dramatic storyteller in song, who can lay claim to being truly the voice that sings for all.
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Features The Magic Lantern, Tiny Ruins & a Singer of Songs, Rezo, Damien Jurado, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Robert Leslie, Eliza Edens, Minami Deutsch, Wilder Maker, Wren Hinds, Annie Fleming & Viking Moses, Emily and The Woods and more.
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With Love is the Only Thing, Peter Mulvey and Sistastrings find refuge and rejuvenation in songs that deliver an uplifting reminder of the common humanity we share.
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We chat with Hannah and Gabriel of Fritillaries, our Artists of the Month, about their self-titled debut album, how they met, their influences, Bristol folk scene, band names and more.
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Chloe Matharu is a singer-songwriter and Celtic Harpist in Wemyss Bay, Inverclyde. Watch her video for her latest single ‘Catching A Free Ride’, taken from her forthcoming debut album ‘Small Voyages’.
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With music that is gloriously varied, Fara’s Energy Islands is a brave, wildly original almost-concept album from one of the finest folk bands in Scotland. It’s an exquisite album.