With blues-playing of the highest virtuosic calibre, Charlie Parr’s “Last Of The Better Days Ahead” is an engrossing, captivating album from a tireless innovator. Indeed, this release marks something emphatically new in his illustrious career.
Taken from their debut album ‘No Fixed Abode’, watch the latest video from Ulster trio TRÚ as they perform ‘Rebel Song’ somewhere along the border on the 11th night of July 2021, taking part in their own bonfire celebration.
A celebration of life in both its highs and lows, memories of things lost and thankfulness for what is still held, these Two Days In Terlingua with Bard Edrington V will make your listening week.
Karen Peris of The Innocence Mission is to release a new solo album titled A Song Is Way Above The Lawn. Watch the video for the album’s lead single “I Will Sing Along” which features Karen’s hand-drawn animation.
Triage is played to perfection by Crowell and his assembled contributors, as he asks us to consider the priorities in a world that desperately needs healing.
With ‘Torus’, James Lindsay challenges our preconceptions of music made using traditional instruments. This is music that demands your attention and pays you back handsomely.
Setting his crisis of confidence to music, Steve Dawson’s At the Bottom of a Canyon in the Branches of a Tree offers a renewal of hope. We’ve never needed that more.
After an eight-year hiatus, post-folk collective Fuzzy Lights return with Burials…”A stirring and unsettling listen” with plenty of breath-taking moments.
In their own words, Joshua Burnside and Laura Quirke talk us through songs that make up “In The Half-Light”, their debut duo EP which is released today. One you don’t want to miss.
Watch the accompanying video for ‘Little Bird’, the new single from Bristol-based Americana duo Rainy Day Woman. “Little Bird turned out to be a lonely, wandering song – of longing and displacement and migrating birds – and we wanted the recording to have space and swell.”
On ‘For Free’, David Crosby sounds re-invigorated by the connections he makes with his art and these recordings. Fans and new converts will find much to love on this album which spotlights all that is fine about the man and his pure voice.
Watch the stunning new video from Seattle art-pop duo Glass Heart String Choir who return on July 21 with their new single ‘California’, which invites us to pause as we begin reaching out again for the things we love and missed during our collective isolation.
