Lush have announced another triple vinyl folk compilation, this time covering the 1980s that includes Jackie Oates, Eliza & Martin Carthy, Marry Waterson, Teddy Thompson, Lisa Knapp, Stealing Sheep and more. Watch Martha Tilston covering Kate Bush’s classic Cloudbusting.
An exceptional and meticulously crafted single, listen to ‘Sweet Joan’, the latest offering from Bay Bryan, taken from their upcoming debut concept album, The Meadow, due for release in 2023.
Garrett Heath’s previous album, Kingdom Come, effortlessly earned a place among my top 10 albums of 2021, and the follow-up, The Losing End, presents a convincing case for making that a double.
Topette’s ‘Bourdon’ is another album of delectably intoxicating grooves. The special blend of instrumental timbres, which when joyously carried aloft in the signature vigorously driven yet expertly controlled playing style, makes for a band sound that is literally unique.
Taken from Lily Henley’s forthcoming album Oras Dezaoradas, a collection of beautiful Judeo-Spanish Folk Songs, listen to ‘Avre Tu Puerta Serrada’. Henley’s approach to this Sephardic tradition is inspiring, refreshing and enduring.
To celebrate the 90th anniversary of the mass trespass of Kinder Scout, members of the Sheffield and Leeds folk scene perform Ewan MacColl’s The Manchester Rambler on Kinder Scout in Peak District National Park.
Ana Silvera has an uncanny ability to combine discomfort with beauty, strangeness with simplicity. The Fabulist – whose very title casts her as an Angela Carter-like teller of curious stories – is the perfect distillation of these ambiguities. A mesmerising and magical album.
Ultimately you have to be true to who you are and be your own person, and Sadie Gustafson-Zook’s “Sin of Certainty” dances on dreamy melodies and her pure soaring voice, her truth is beautiful and beguiling. Lean in and listen.
Anna Tivel has signed to hometown label Mama Bird Recording Co. and shared a new song called “Astrovan”. She performs the song in the first of the label’s new series, The Schoolhouse Sessions, shot at their new headquarters outside Portland.
Steeped in sorrow, loss, heartache and misery it may be, but Lynne Hanson’s knowing way with a tongue-in-cheek lyric and a melody line that hooks you in, Icecream in November is also an absolute joy to wallow in, she’s hip like Cohen indeed.
Taken from his latest album ‘Last of the Better Days Ahead’ and ahead of his UK & Ireland Tour next month, watch Charlie Parr performing ‘817 Oakland Avenue’ live.
Graeme Armstrong’s debut album ‘You Are Free’, stands out as an adventurous and honest expression of one musician’s thoughts and feelings, as they relate to both his own life and to the great bedrock of folk music that he is building upon.
