Following Show of Hands’ ‘indefinite break’ announcement, Roots 2, an exemplary best-of collection, looks back at their last 16 years, an incredibly fruitful period shaped by exploration and collaboration.
Jane Weaver has revealed her new single ‘Love in Constant Spectacle’, accompanied by a new video animated by Kamran Kaur. “It’s about searching for joy, wanting to love and feel loved, then uncovering it in unusual places and in the smallest, hidden things in life…”
The Liverpool-based fiddle player and balladeer Mikey Kenney is on a very special headline tour now that you don’t want to miss. Check out his latest single and support grassroots music by buying those advance tickets.
Carried in Sound is an emotionally evocative album textured musically, vocally and lyrically with shadows and light, like a comforting flickering candle in the depth of darkness and storms; it’s easily the best thing that the Smoke Fairies have ever done.
Featuring Dawn Landes, Sodastream, Paul Curreri, Dan Haywood’s New Hawks, Matt Sweeney & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Yo La Tengo, Lau Nau, Skyway Man (ft Erin Rae & Spencer Cullum), Katie Macfarlane & Brìghde Chaimbeul, Erlend Apneseth Trio, Mi Mye, Owen Shiers, Bobby Lee and more.
When things begin to stagnate, the answer is to shake things up, which is what Zach Berkman needed to do on The Heart of. An album that examines that complex dance of human existence, and that endless search for connection.
Joseph Allred’s New Jerusalem shifts between the cosmic and the cosmopolitan and results in a multilayered album that is often intriguingly dense but never far away from a state of euphoria.
Featuring new music from The Furrow Collective, John Francis Flynn, Frankie Archer, You Are Wolf, Cat Power, Sufjan Stevens, Alice Gerrard, King Creosote, Henry Parker, Katie Spencer, Steven Adams, Freschard And Stanley Brinks, Bobby Lee and more.
On Sweet Revolution, the superb new album from Hannah White, the honesty of her words, music, and voice makes all the hurt within somehow beatific and transformational.
The seminal Irish group, The Bothy Band, are to perform at Celtic Connections (on 22nd January at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall), featuring Donal Lunny, Tríona ní Dhomhnaill, Matt Molloy, Paddy Keenan, Paddy Glackin and Kevin Burke. They will be joined by Seán Óg Graham on guitar.
Even among the darkest moments of Kristen Grainger & True North’s ‘Fear of Falling Stars’, there’s a light somewhere on the horizon, bringing you back to listen again and again.
Harp, the musical project of former Midlake singer Tim Smith and his wife Kathi Zung, share their new single and lyric video, “Throne Of Amber”., taken from their forthcoming album ‘Albion’.
