In our second ‘Reflections’ playlist, we ask Jim White and Marisa Anderson to put together a playlist that inspires them. Featuring: Lankum, Anouar Brahem Trio, Freakwater, Ornette Coleman and more.
After a six-year hiatus, Old Man Luedecke returns with ‘She Told Me Where To Go’; re-energised and reinvented, this is one of his finest albums to date.
Rough Trade announce ‘Lankum—Live in Dublin’, recorded across three sold-out nights at Dublin’s Vicar Street, and share ‘Rocky Road to Dublin’, which has never been officially released until now.
Listen to Valium, the first single from Jack Cheshire’s forthcoming new album, Interloper. Through the widescreen, loping pastoral psychedelia of Valium, Cheshire explores themes of escapism and dissociation amid societal decay.
Watch Lemoncello’s video diary on the making of their self-titled debut on 2-inch tape with Julie McLarnon at Analogue Catalogue Studios in Newry, Northern Ireland.
Ned Roberts’ Heavy Summer is a pastoral folk album with gentle Laurel Canyon musical breezes and echoes of Nick Drake, James Taylor, and Tim Hardin…a meditative and quietly absorbing listening experience.
The Burning Hell were so impressed by Nev Clay, one of Newcastle’s best-kept secrets, that Mathias Kom asked to review Nev’s new album, ‘So Little Happened for So Long’ – “It’s my record of the year, and the remainder of 2024 is irrelevant”.
À Feu Doux is the forthcoming new release from Kevin Fowley, a Franco-Irish musician based in Dublin. Watch the accompanying video for the dream-like album opener, Ne Pleure Pas, Jeannette, which sets the tone for the release.
Laura J Martin’s Prepared is her strongest, strangest and most distinctive work yet, and proof that after an eight-year break, good things come to those who wait.
Nathan Bowles Trio, featuring Bowles, Double-bassist Casey Toll and drummer Rex McMurry, reunite for another album. ‘Are Possible’ drops on July 26th via Drag City Records, and they get the ball rolling with their excellent lead single ‘The Ternions’.
Produced by Jim Moray and featuring several special guests, Out of the Rain is a glorious, re-energised return from Blair Dunlop that should comfortably reinstate him among folk rock’s upper echelons.
A new playlist featuring Aldous Harding, Sam Amidon, This is the Kit, Amen Dunes, Louisa Stancioff, Cate Le Bon, Big Thief, Ganavya, A. Kostis, A Hawk and a Hacksaw, Muireann Ní Shé, Kaia Kater, Lemoncello, Landless, Natalia Beylis, Citizen Bravo, Ivor Cutler and more.
