Featuring a host of special guests, Mike Vass’s Decemberwell Decade is a tour de force. Don’t wait to add it to your Christmas list, you’d then miss out on the best possible month to be listening to this inescapably December music.
The Bellowhead and Leveret fiddle maestro Sam Sweeney talks about the creative process of his new solo album Escape That, a deeply personal set that sees him at his most dynamic and liberated.
Watch the new video by KIDMILK for Elspeth Anne’s new album single ‘Wet Peace’ which is released today. It explores a connection with nature, the land and our ancestors…
For their latest album ‘Tri’, Welsh trio Plu broadened their soundstage, bringing a beautiful nuanced depth to their music. It’s an understated joy and one of the best albums I’ve heard this year.
Hailed as “one of Scotland’s most fascinating young singer-songwriters”, watch the video for Zoë Bestel’s new single ‘Utopia’, set to release on November 11th.
It shouldn’t come as a surprise – despite Stick in the Wheel’s fearsome, uncompromising and unashamedly experimental attitude to folk music; the live recordings featured on Endurance Soundly Caged prove that they can still engage with listeners on the most visceral of levels.
Listen to London-based Gentle Stranger’s new track ‘Since the Plough’ – they are hosting their own mini-festival – ‘Two Nights Of Unlearning’ – at the Horse Hospital on 19th & 20th November.
Australian musician Gena Rose Bruce has shared a moving video for Deep is the Way, directed by Alex Badham, a student of the legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog. The song features Bill Callahan who co-wrote the duet.
Under the name of All The Brave Hunters, Galway songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Alain McFadden, a member of award-winning folk group Ye Vagabonds, has shared his first solo single ‘Rising’, also our Song of the Day.
Watch Scottish musician Alasdair Roberts and Irish musician Brigid Mae Power performing ‘The Blacksmith’ for the Museum of Literature Ireland as part of their Myth, Story, Song series.
Taken from her new album, watch Eliza Carthy’s new video for ‘Good Morning Mr Walker’ featuring The Sweet Rosemarys who include Jon Boden and John Spiers, Sheema Mukherjee, Rory MacLeod, Angeline Morrison and the Mighty Sparrow’s bandleader himself, Lane Steinberg.
While tackling difficult subjects, Jeb Loy Nichols’s ‘The United States Of The Broken Hearted’ is ultimately a soother; he never loses sight of the restorative beauty in music and hope found in basic person-to-person interaction; these are things which still make life worth living.
