Calling to mind the summer of love, The Heartless Bastards’ ‘A Beautiful Life’, serves as a reminder that it’s a beautiful life and it’s one that deserves to be lived and celebrated.
Tomorrow sees the release of ‘Love By Night’, the new single from Singer-songwriter Ren Lawton – aka Conor Owen. A song about a couple who hide away their forbidden love so they can remain free from others expectations…
O’Hooley & Tidow have captured the pride of the Pennines in a specially commissioned song for the launch of a new park. Watch the accompanying video for ‘Chimneys, Moors and Me’.
Despite the difficulties and the blood sweat and tears behind this album, it holds together perfectly as a fully coherent whole. Phil Odgers’ “Ghosts of Rock n Roll’ is a wonderful record of folky pop and melancholic twang that demands your ears.
Watch the new video from Katy Rose Bennett for Devil, her latest single that blends hypnotic, acappella vocal loops and electronica with traditional folk songwriting to create an unsettling and beguiling sound.
Individually, the four albums that form Blek’s Catharsis Project are each standout works, together forming a heart-swelling conceptual quartet. The finale, On Ether & Air, which is fuelled by and founded on an intermingling of loss and hope, proves a triumphant climax.
The Burner Band’s ‘Signs and Wonders’ is a bristlingly confident, musically infectious and assured debut. While they only once break the three-minute mark, they deliver by simply going in, doing the job, and getting out again with a less is more attitude.
Watch the beautifully animated video for ‘Bluebirds and Rye’, the latest single from Kate Ellis, a loving letter sent from mother to daughter. There’s a beautiful homespun warmth to Kate’s music that’s sure to make her forthcoming album a highlight for many in 2022.
Watch the video for Lammas Fair, the title track of Henry Parker’s new album, and our Song of the Day. Parker’s own music lies in both the past and present and with performances like this, there’s plenty to celebrate for the future.
The line-up on David Ferguson’s ‘Nashville No More’ is a testament to the respect this celebrated Nashville musician commands. This debut album is a testament to the fact he most certainly deserves it.
While Coyote Canyon is unmistakably a Rick Deitrick album that will seamlessly slip into his catalogue, there are also intriguing moods and techniques at play that give it its own identity. In short, Coyote Canyon is an altogether intriguing and rather lovely album.
The August List’s ‘Wax Cat’ is a thrilling and bizarre concoction of retro influences that’s delivered in a glorious jumble of melodic chaos. The near-collision between the myriad competing forces provides a near-perfect record.
