Weep The Time Away is a wonderfully atmospheric album with Sofie Livebrandt’s nuanced interpretations perfectly attuned to Emily Brontë’s poetry, its reflections and sentiments. It honours and illuminates its source, prompting more to discover Brontë’s work.

With a line-up of international musicians, The Year of the Rat, the latest offering from Gabriel Moreno, a bilingual Gibraltarian poet and singer songwriter, has indeed given us an album of the times.

Staring At Mountains is a strangely visceral album on which we get to hear Adam Ross at his most open. It provides the richest and most detailed snapshot yet of the songwriting and thought processes…of one of Scotland’s most talented singers and songwriters.

Taken from their forthcoming ‘Unknown’ Waters album featuring nine songs written by their favourite north eastern songwriters, Megson share the accompanying video for their cover of Chris Rea’s Road to Hell.

If you are looking for bright, stirring, exceptional fiddle playing and variety, then Aidan Connolly’s “Portland Bow” will make your day. His warm, melodic playing carries the collection, adding just enough ornamentation to put his personal stamp on a great set of tunes.

Peter Knight & John Spiers’ ‘Both in a Tune’ is effortlessly impressive and sublimely performed…innovation, experimentation and improvisation at its very best. By the end this year it will surely still be in the minds of many as one of the best of 2022.

Watch ‘Navigation at Sea’, the latest video animation from Simon J Jones of Harp and a Monkey, inspired by the 1967 Ladybird title ‘Understanding Maps’ and taken from his forthcoming album ‘How Things Work’.

Norma Waterson one of the greatest voices of the British folk scene has died, age 82. We look back on her rich musical life and her enduring legacy. The intimacy and connection she made with an audience stayed with you long after she left the stage. There will be no other like her.

The live performance of Ordinary Giants, Robb Johnson’s highly acclaimed song-suite was exceptional entertainment, captivating, mesmerising, heartening and distressing, constantly assailing the range of human emotions. The musicianship and vocal contributions were top-class.

The variety and quality of Old Blind Dogs latest album pretty much demanded I write about each track…it has reignited an evangelical flame; Knucklehead Circus is an album that can change lives.

Simon Emmerson returns with Weirdy Birdy II. Along this sonic journey, we hear Marry Waterson, Afro Celt Sound System, The Imagined Village, Martha Tilston, a duet with a Mistle Thrush, red deer bellowing on a starry night by the River Tagus and so much more.

These two discs will cause a lot of head-scratching as people try to figure out why they’ve missed the glories of Fruit Bats. For those that haven’t, there’s also plenty of delights in store.