While Lee Baggett’s playing may sometimes recall Neil Young of old, the lyrics on Waves for a Begull bend to a more positive vibe that seems to find new ways to discover joy–an antidote for these troubled times.
Animal Collective’s Brian “Geologist” Weitz announces a collaboration with Sleepy Doug Shaw (Gang Gang Dance / White Magic / High Life) and shares their first video and single, “Route 9 Falls” – like some cosmic Appalachian odyssey.
With Midwinter Swimmers, The Innocence Mission continue the trend of creating albums of sparkling clarity and coherent vision. The quality is always unfalteringly high throughout, and the tonal and thematic shifts provide enough progression to make every new album essential. This is no exception.
Johnny Coley is a genuine poet, someone with things to say that haven’t been said before. With Mister Sweet Whisper, he has created a document of a crazy, frayed civilization and has made it sound beautiful.
Listen to our Monday Morning Brew Playlist, an uplifting offering featuring Adam Finchler, Damien Jurado, Project Gemini, Anna Tivel, Bonny Light Horseman, Timothy Monger, Arlt, Will Knox, The Van Pelt, KIDDUSI, Bananagun, Bob Dylan and more.
Kathryn Tickell talks about her new album, Return to Kielderside, a reimagining of her debut, On Kielder Side. While forty years may have passed, much of what shaped that first album still remains at the heart of everything she does today.
Jennifer Castle’s Camelot is a kind of jousting match between religion and mystic thought and secular, pragmatic humanism. It’s rare for an album of such intellectual depth to be so accessible, but throughout, Castle imbues her songs with wit, candour and melodic charm.
Listen to our latest Mixtape featuring Alice Boyd, Don Leisure & Carwyn Ellis, The Innocence Mission, Fionn Regan, Andrew Tuttle/Michael Chapman, Constant Follower, Nev Clay, Richard Dawson, Kevin Fowley, Jennifer Castle, Lee Baggett, Anna Butterss, Angeline Morrison, Glåsbird & more.
Constant Follower, led by singer-songwriter Stephen McAll, shares a powerfully moving video directed by Martin J Pickering for the song ‘Patient Has Own Supply’, which tells a deeply personal story rooted in McAll’s teenage years.
Oysterband, Levellers, Natalie MacMaster & Donnell Leahy, Jim Moray, Moonlight Benjamin, The Henry Girls, Bryony Griffith & Alice Jones, Melrose Quartet, and 9Bach are just some of the first wave of artists announced for Shrewsbury Folk Festival 2025.
Under his pseudonym of Glåsbird, British artist and composer Harry Towell’s exploration of remote geographic locations returns closer to home as he explores the low-lying fenlands surrounding his sleepy Lincolnshire village.
Clara Mann has shared ‘Til I Come Around, a song “about intimacy, in every sense.” The new single, also our Song of the Day, is taken from her forthcoming debut album, ‘Rift’ (7th March 2025—via state51). Watch the accompanying visualiser.
