Bonnie “Prince” Billy announces his new studio album ‘The Purple Bird’, made in Nashville with producer David “Ferg” Ferguson and an ensemble of A-list session musicians. Watch the video for their lead single ‘Our Home’, featuring Tim O’Brien.
Tim Stafford and Thomm Jutz’s ‘Wall Dogs’ is an unfussy, downhome album with its roots deep in the musicians’ personal and musical heritages, played with unshowy skills and warmed by the fire of human connections, longings and lives lived.
Jeremie Albino’s Our Time In The Sun, his first for Dan Auerbach’s label Easy Eye Sound, is the stuff of jukebox diners, a singalong soundtrack to nights of pain and passion…it’s also huge on melodic pleasantries.
The Unthanks have announced a new double album, The Unthanks in Winter, due for release on November 29th. Listen to their lead single, Dear Companions, released today.
This week’s Monday Morning Brew Playlist features Tucker Zimmerman, Joshua Idehen, Snowgoose, Karl Blau, Samantha Crain, Agalisiga, Adrian Sherwood and Lee “Scratch” Perry, Joan Shelley, Clara Mann, Alabaster DePlume and more.
Karl Blau’s Vultures of Love is an album that deserves to be listened to all the way through: when taken together, the hectic elements that make up each individual song coalesce into something whole (and strangely wholesome), and that’s a beautiful thing to experience.
Past sounds have never sounded so thoroughly born of the present as they do on Jerron Paxton’s raw and wonderful ‘Things Done Changed’…a finely crafted album for today made oh so skilfully with the tools of yesterday.
On The Neon Gate, Nap Eyes songs drink deep at the wells of philosophy and literature, but you wouldn’t necessarily know it from a cursory listen. They seem to create a different niche for themselves with every new album; long may it continue.
Snowgoose’s third album, Descendant, is said to offer “a reflection on the beauty and pain of impermanence”, but their intoxicating music is a far from transitory experience. Outstanding.
With strong, solid songwriting coupled with immaculate, eclectic music, all beautifully performed, Eric Bibb’s In the Real World comes with the strongest recommendation.
Jon Doran and The Northern Assembly’s debut EP gives clear notice that this impressive folk trio are overflowing with ideas for the production of imaginative, entertaining music – they hold great promise for the future.
Watch the video for ‘Quiet Is Louder’, the first single from Cole Stacey’s debut solo album ‘Postcards From Lost Places’, inspired by the likes of a prehistoric settlement on Dartmoor and a Victorian mining village–scheduled for release on 7 February 2025.
