A painter, poet, songwriter and storyteller, Lancashire’s Toria Wooff’s mystical repertoire is steeped in gothic romanticism. Don’t miss her tour dates this month.
On ‘Look Over the Wall, See the Sky’, John Francis Flynn unropes songs from their historical moorings and lets them barrel downstream…Refreshing and vividly utopian, these songs exist in liberated states that have the feel of radical statements.
On ‘Cat Power Sings Dylan’, the audience’s reaction is an outpouring of love and gratitude deservedly raining down on a timeless set of music and an artist with the depth of understanding, integrity and feeling to pull it off. What a night this must have been.
Fascinating in its simplicity while constantly shifting focal points, with Nightwater/ all the dead do is dream, Gabriel Birnbaum creates worlds that are the perfect antidote for whatever the day has brought.
Bryony Griffith & Alice Jones’s ‘Wesselbobs’ casts a light on treasured Yorkshire traditions, tales, and winter rituals. A charming seasonal offering that any folkie would be happy to find under the tree.
Listen to The Monday Morning Brew, ft. Other Lives, Lisa Hannigan, Johnny Flynn, Sam Amidon, Sparrow & the Workshop, Alasdair Roberts, Lowland Hum, Justin Townes Earle and Dawn Landes, Julie Doiron, The Wave Pictures, Deer Tick, Laura Veirs and more.
Ireland’s Anna Mieke shares her new single “Ornament,” a B-side off her acclaimed second album Theatre. The song, on which an entrancing soundscape creates a warm, golden atmosphere for her soothing and equally hypnotic vocals, is accompanied by a video directed by Véra Haddad.
On ‘When the Roses Come Again’ Daniel Bachman returns to the past and does a wonderful job in skilfully blending his electronic touches with traditional music. Of his whole quartet of recent work, starting with 2018’s Morning Star, this is his strongest.
Dipped in an attractive psychedelic West Coast vibe, Half Stack’s latest offering, Sitting Pretty, shifts from previous whiskey-soaked rock to an overall more relaxed mellower feel.
Taken from her seventh Christmas album, Light Years, Kate Rusby shares her new single and video ‘Glorious’, inspired by an image of a lost and broken angel.
Joined by Neilson Hubbard and Will Kimbrough, Dean Owens’s Pictures is an album haunted by ghosts and anchored by love, it might just well be the best he’s ever made.
Sci-fi mountain music anyone? Taken from Bitw’s forthcoming new album ‘Rehearse’, described as his most personal offering to date, watch his new video for Old Hands – beautifully idiosyncratic psych-pop.
