Their most accessible album yet, The Little Unsaid’s “Lick The Future’s Lips” is an album of variegated musical moods and songs that peer into the gloom but also spark a flicker of light in the potential to change both the world and ourselves.
His first new material in three year’s, Will Varley returns on October 15, with The Hole Around My Head, listen to his lead single “Pushing Against Us”.
On David Kitt’s “20”, he has lovingly rerecorded a score of his favourite songs. As demonstrated throughout, Kitt is a master of his craft and while this is essentially a career retrospective, it is a stunning musical document in its own right.
The line-up on ‘I Am of Ireland’, reads like a who’s who of the mainly Irish but also Irish American and British folk music world. There’s plenty of enjoyable music here and if it guides you back to Yeats’ poetry, well, that’s a worthwhile bonus.
What makes Willing so special is the way Lady Nade refuses to take the obvious steps – she also sings beautifully and has a band that understands exactly what she needs and they deliver 100%.
We chat with internationally acclaimed artist David Suff about his new book “Walking on Skylark Ridge” – part nature diary, part autobiography, this collection of writing and drawings documents our relationship with the local natural world through one year.
Our Song of the Day comes from composer and performer Antoni O’Breskey with “Eighteen Years Old”. Taken from his forthcoming album ‘Blessed Sadness’, it features a talented array of musicians including the enchanting vocals of his daughter Consuelo Nerea Breschi of Varo.
Serious Child and Andy Ruddy reveal their humorous video for their second album single “Turn the Music Down”, a song written in response to creatives being told to give up their careers. Their new album “talk about the weather” is out in September.
In the Half-Light is a brief but assured, deeply enticing snapshot from Joshua Burnside and Laura Quirke of how their two talents intermingle to form a single cohesive vision. Hopefully, this is a prelude to further collaboration…one to be eagerly anticipated.
More tickets have just been released for top name concerts at A Celebration of Sidmouth Folk Festival – a whole week of music and merriment that will swing into action from July 30 to August 6.
Listen to Joe Troop’s new single ‘Red, White & Blues’, a timely release about the “ridiculousness of white identity in the US”. Taken from his solo album “Borrowed Time”, out August 20 on Free Dirt Records.
Dean Owens and his various collaborators have explored a variety of ideas, moods and sounds within the overall desert-Americana landscape, building eager anticipation for what the full album project will eventually encompass. It’s been a captivating journey.
