Hailing from Bristol, Eva May shares her debut single and video ‘Where Does The Time Go’, a fabulous slice of 70’s AM radio folk rock and also our Song of the Day.
Georgia Ruth’s Cool Head is defined by subtle experimentation, highly accessible melodies and clever, heartfelt lyrics that have always been her forte, while her attention to the smallest musical detail allows her to draw out the latent emotion of a moment…It’s her strongest offering yet.
Taken from their forthcoming album of traditional songs and tunes arranged in three parts with no instruments in sight…watch The Wilderness Yet performing ‘The Goose & The Common’, an 18th-century protest rhyme about land rights and privatisation.
Originally recorded on the pipe organ at St Mark’s Church, Islington, Irish experimental musician Áine O’Dwyer’s immersive ‘Music for Church Cleaners Vol.1 & Vol.2’ is now available on Bandcamp.
Five years since their last full-length album, Strange News Has Come To Town demonstrates that Naomi Bedford and Paul Simmonds remain as vital a musical force as ever.
Lankum’s music is vital, and ‘Live in Dublin’ is nothing if not heartfelt. It descends into a session, along with its deeper and more pressing elements—people, communities, and our cultural and historical underpinnings. It’s a band at the peak of their powers.
Our latest Monday Morning Brew playlist features music from Trost, Tunng, Devendra Banhart, PJ Harvey, Yo La Tengo, The Fall, White Fence, Cate Le Bon, Gruff Rhys, Robert Wyatt, Cat Power, Bill Callahan, Belle and Sebastian, Cass McCombs, Jeffrey Lewis, Low, Jim O’Rourke, Jim white.
Beautifully considered, intricate and finely nuanced, SUSS’s ‘Birds & Beasts’ is a great piece of work. Fresh and confident, the album marks a new beginning for the band while acknowledging their lost comrade, Gary Leib.
On the final song of Linda Thompson’s Proxy Music there’s a refrain that pretty much summarises the whole album “Bound together in blood and song, who can break us?/When we are singing loud and strong, who can take us?” I hear no arguments to the contrary.
Beings are the New York City quartet Zoh Amba, Steve Gunn, Shahzad Ismaily and Jim White; their debut album, ‘There is a Garden’, is blistering, beautiful free jazz with an uncommonly sunny and accommodating outlook.
Between the cello of Clément Petit and the vocals of Msaki and Tubatsi, magic occurs. Synthetic Hearts Part II is one of those rare times when the second helping is even better than the first. Collaborations like this happen very rarely. Savour it.
The Decemberists set the bar very high with ‘As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again’, a record packed with highlights, a fully-loaded taste of their essence, pulling in every colour and thread they have touched upon in a long and varied two-decade career.
