★★★★★ Orienteers’ eponymous second release is a hazy, fragile, almost celestial sounding appreciation of travel (hence the name), and it follows up 2008′s Staying Places; released by the same folk under their original guise That’s the Spirit.
The new Sea of Bees ‘Gnomes EP’ is worth getting your hands on. It features the album version and a remix of “Gnomes” by Tuung, plus covers of Blue Oyster Cult’s classic “Don’t Fear the Reaper” featuring Neal Casal on guitar and a favorite from Jules’ youth!
Alessi’s Ark has released a new video for ‘On the plains’ from her upcoming album Time Travel. The video features some great live footage of Alessi performing and enjoying an evening in Durham, NC the night of her show at The Casbah during her last trip to the US.
In early 2009 Ryan Adams announced he was ‘backing off’ music, reasons given included hearing loss due to Ménière’s disease. Fans are now twitching in their seats as his NEW album looms ever nearer! Ashes & Fire is due for release on October 11. Get a taster of it now!
★★★★★ Honest Words may clock in at just over 10 minutes; this time whisking us away from the Fife landscape, yet it plays out as a suitable follow up to King Creosote & Jon Hopkins‘ Mercury nominated Diamond Mine.
With the October 2011 release of Sing In My Meadow, Cowboy Junkies continue an ambitious schedule of four releases over an 18 month period, collectively titled “The Nomad Series.” The album follows the critically acclaimed Demons and Renmin Park.
Here is one to excite old fans of 16 Horsepower and inspire the new! A double-album collection featuring one disc of fan-selected favourites and one disc of previously unreleased and out-of-print rarities.
After offering a chance for film-makers to make a video to Junip’s ‘Without You’ they have finally picked a winner. Watch the winning video made by co-Dependency and filmed in Albuquerque, New Mexico on 40 plus year old equipment, a challenge in itself.
Following her mesmerizing performance at the Mercury Music Prize last week, Domino Records are excited to present Anna Calvi’s new video for Suzanne & I, the latest single from her self-titled debut released earlier this year.
Gardens & Villa have announced they’ll play eight UK dates in November as part of a wider European tour. Released this summer, the Santa Barbara quintet’s eponymous debut has also yielded a second eye-catching video in the shape of David South’s dimension-blurring clip for ‘Spacetime’.
★★★★★ The stirring vocals of St. Vincent return with the release of her third album, Strange Mercy. Reunited with producer John Congleton (Actor 2009) Annie Clark makes a departure from previous releases with her eletric guitar holding court on centre stage.
The third album from My Brightest Diamond, ‘All Things Will Unwind’ was composed exclusively with the chamber ensemble yMusic (Bon Iver, Antony & the Johnsons, The New York Philharmonic & Rufus Wainwright) and more folk-tinged than much of Shara Worden’s recent work.
