From his forthcoming debut album, watch the accompanying video to ‘The Coo Coo’, the new single from Mike Tod. It all works so well, from the brilliantly haunting arrangements to the animated video. We’re looking forward to hearing more.
Featuring one of the most striking songs I’ve heard this year, Songs For John Alfred marks the arrival of a conspicuous new voice on the folk-Americana circuit; a full album from Broken Harbours is eagerly awaited.
Your Heart Breaks invite us to walk the beach and examine the detritus of life washed up on the shore. Watch their new video for Wesley Crusher featuring Kimya Dawson.
Our Song of the Day is Devil’s Nine Questions, the new single from the global folk collective Mishra, joined by Indian classical vocalist Deepa Shakthi. It really is an outstanding single.
Watch the stunning new visualiser video from Hack-Poets Guild for ‘Something to Love Me’, taken from their forthcoming debut album, Blackletter Garland, which is out this week on 10 March.
Salt House’s “Riverwoods” feels far more important and pertinent than a regular release. It is an album of stirringly gorgeous music that fully delivers its message about the importance of nature and its inherent beauty in our world, along with how we need to maintain it.
Hack-Poets Guild features three of the finest musical minds that the British folk scene has to offer, and on Blackletter Garland, an album that is more than the sum of its parts, they demonstrate the possible futures of folk music, all of them varied and vibrant.
Taken from his new double album El Tiradito (The Curse of Sinner’s Shrine), watch the video for Dean Owens’ ‘She Was A Raven’ on which he is joined once again by members of Calexico. Also, don’t miss Dean Owens and The Sinners upcoming tour dates.
With dreamier, pop leanings, Brigid Mae Power shares ‘Dream From The Deep Well’, the title track of her forthcoming new album and our Song of the Day. Brigid is touring intimate folk clubs and garden cafe spaces across the UK this month.
Folk music has always been inextricably tied up with history, but rarely has the relationship been as mysterious and rewarding as it is here with Milkweed’s ‘The Mound People’.
Alongside The Waterboys, This is the Kit, Sona Jobarteh, The Longest Johns and Lady Maisery, Nick Mulvey completes the Folk by the Oak Main Stage Line-up for Sunday, 16th July 2023.
Emerging Midlands musician, Elizabeth J Birch pays a powerful and heartfelt tribute to trade unionist and suffragist Mary MacArthur by singing Rouse Ye Women in a new video release for International Women’s Day 2023.
