John Smith’s ‘The Living Kind’ is an understatedly emotional and introspectively melancholic celebration of hope and light in the face of despair and darkness…It’s a masterpiece.
Taken from his new album Locust Land, Bill MacKay shares his second single, ‘Glow Drift’, on which he locks into a relatable psychedelic groove with Mikel Patrick Avery and Sam Wagster. Intelligence and imagination are the order of the day for these sonic explorers.
The Zawose Queens – Pendo and Leah Zawose – announce Maisha, a long-awaited first by female members of one of Tanzania’s most famous musical families. To be released on Real World Records in June, watch the video for their title track single, released today.
Queer Folk sextet Goblin Band announce their debut EP ‘Come Slack Your Horse!’ and share their new single ‘Widecombe Fair’…Sounding like a 17th-century punk band, they deliver music in its raw, merry-making form – as intended.
It’s been a while since we last heard from Urban Folk Quartet, but now, after an eight-year gap, they are back. We caught up with the band to chat about their new album True Story.
Son of the Velvet Rat just keep getting better, and on Ghost Ranch, they are joined by several special guests, including Jolie Holland and Marc Ribot, to deliver what is unquestionably an album of the year.
The Decemberists announce their ninth studio album, As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again, and share their epic 19-minute new single ‘Joan in the Garden’, a transcendent offering that’s worth the extra weight.
Our Song of the Day comes from Remorae, a collective of folk and electronic musicians that began life as Folkatron Sessions. Listen to their new single, Johnny’s On The Water, which is due for release tomorrow and taken from their forthcoming EP Flourish in Green.
Jack Francis’ Early Retirement is a ‘stupendous’ concept album about endings and new beginnings, riding out fallen dreams, and trying to navigate modern society as an old soul in a new world.
Watch Liam Grant perform the upbeat original tune ‘Androscoggin River Ragg’ from his highly acclaimed latest album, Amoskeag, released through Carbon and Feeding Tube as a limited edition vinyl album.
Bring The Tide In is a rather lovely ebb-and-flow quartet of poignancy-tinged songs that serve as a reminder of Iona Lane’s luminescent talent and is hopefully an early signpost of a new album in the not-too-distant future.
Molecules, the fourth full-length release from Ma Polaine’s Great Decline, seems to have been sprinkled with fairy dust and, while still mingling their jazz, blues, Americana and folk influences, glows with something special.
