Emma Tricca has signed to Bella Union and will release her fourth album ‘Aspirin Sun’ on 7th April. To celebrate the news, she has shared a colourful and captivating video for the first single, “King Blixa”, directed by Francesco Cabras.
Our Song of the Day comes from Mary Elizabeth Remington with her new single ‘Dresser Hill’, taken from her upcoming album In Embudo featuring Adrianne Lenker and James Krivchenia of Big Thief and Mat Davidson (Twain).
An unintended concept album, Ben Bedford’s ‘Valley of Stars’ is a magical musical folk tale – an ambitious, intricate and hypnotic conjuring of a psyche seeking to self-repair, one that needs to be heard in one sitting from start to end to gather the full effect and the final catharsis it brings.
Featuring music from John McCusker, Elly Lucas, Doug Paisley, Rozi Plain, Fantastic Negrito, James Yorkston, Nina Persson and The Second Hand Orchestra, Duncan Chisholm, Burnt Paw, Trina Basu & Arun Ramamurthy, Úna Monaghan, Kate Dineen, Molly O’Mahony and more.
In part inspired by Sorley MacLean’s poem ‘An Cuilithionn / The Cuillin’, Duncan Chisholm’s “Black Cuillin” is, by any measure, an extraordinary achievement, a complete joy and a deeply immersive experience.
After three decades as one of folk and traditional music’s leading fiddle players, John McCusker has plenty to look back on in our Artist of the Month interview in which he shares his musical heroes, memories and more.
While The Great White Sea Eagle shares much with James Yorkston’s previous album, it somehow manages to hit harder on an emotional and visceral level. A new Yorkston album is always a bracing experience, this one more so than most.
Doug Paisley offers some easy-going hook-laden vibes with his new single, “Sometimes It’s So Easy”, from his upcoming album “Say What You Like”. In the accompanying video, he demonstrates that he hasn’t forgotten the bike skills of his youth.
Today marks the release of Aoife Doyle’s stunning new single Wicklow, watch the beautiful accompanying animated video created by Aoife Balfe of My Aunt Sally Productions.
For his solo release ‘While You Were Slumbering’, Joseph Decosimo plays to his strengths, crafting a magical tapestry of old time songs and instrumentals with minimal but effective embellishments from a host of guest players, including Alice Gerrard.
With Traveling Wildfire, Dom Flemons’ second album for Smithsonian Folkways, he turns to an important, overlooked voice that he’s proudly rediscovered: his own. Listen to his lead single ‘Slow Dance With You’.
The Young’uns have shared their new single, Tiny Notes, which is also the title of their upcoming new album. Like many of their songs which have found hope and humanity in grief and despair, Tiny Notes was also inspired by a real-life story.
