Listen to ‘Ebb & Flow’ by The Little Unsaid from his new album ‘December Songs’. “I wanted to find simple songs that captured the melancholy of this time of year, but also the cosiness, the closeness…the promise of a different kind of year ahead.”
Karine Polwart and Dave Milligan have crafted an elegantly uncomplicated listen. Dreamy yet thought-provoking at just the right moments, Still As Your Sleeping is an earnest and embracing soundtrack. Thoroughly warm-hearted and beautifully life-affirming. A genuinely gorgeous and magical duet.
Our Song of the Day is The High Priestess and the Hierophant, the new single from Burd Ellen…inspired by finding parallels between interpretation of traditional song and the art of divination.
Compiled by Lankum’s Ian Lynch, Fire Draw Near is an essential and worthy anthology for anyone with an interest in traditional music and song, it’s also a thoroughly enjoyable, irresistible and inspiring set of songs and tunes.
Taken from their debut album “The Impossible Wild”, watch the latest handmade stop-frame animation from The Last Inklings for ‘Vespers’ on which, the subtlety of the instrumentation is, as throughout the album, sublime.
Featuring Andy Cutting, Ríoghnach Connolly & Ellis Davis, Rosie Hood and more, Locations is the result of the efforts of three Liverpool students who drove across the North of England in a red Corsa filled with audio and film equipment to record six musical combinations in six different locations.
It’s not often that, at first listen, an album almost literally takes your breath away. But Mishra’s ‘Reclaim’ bristles with vibrant energy and has a freshness and lightness of touch that did just that.
Listen to “Prune”, the lead single from Sally Anne Morgan’s new solo album “Cups”, described as being in stark contrast to the traditional and pop-informed structures of her last album Thread.
Our Song of the Day comes from The Weather Station with “Better Now” which appears on the Deluxe Edition version of Ignorance that is digitally released today. The limited vinyl edition is being released in November.
It is hard to imagine that there will be a better debut album this year. With ‘The Impossible Wild’, The Last Inklings have shown that they are envelope-pushing visionaries.
Taken from their latest album The Missing Star, Lunatraktors have shared a video for their second album track ‘My Witch’ which is also our Song of the Day.
Taken from their new album, ‘Hell on Church Street’, the Punch Brothers share the accompanying video for their lead single Church Street Blues, a total gem that’s sure to leave fans eager for more.
