Alex Rex share video for new single ‘What’s Shouted In The Dark…’, taken from their fourth album Paradise which finds Neilson reunited with ex-Trembling Bells vocalist Lavinia Blackwall. “It has a flick knife riff, pneumatic drums and themes of self-deception and destruction…”
Big changes are afoot for power-folk-trio The Trials of Cato as they announce an exciting new line-up change with Polly Bolton joining the band. Watch the video for their new single ‘Bedlam Boys’ taken from their forthcoming new album Gog Magog.
A 50th Anniversary reissue of a classic – For an imperfect perfect glimpse into the past, and for its paradoxical timeless quality, succumb to the spirit of love, either, like me, again, or for many of you, for the first time. Excellent – and pass me that joss stick.
Reveal Records continue their 15 Year Anniversary celebrations with two new audio interviews. Boo Hewerdine plays tracks from and chats about his new ‘Selected Works’ album and Kris Drever does the same with his latest offering ‘When The World is Thin’.
Watch American-Scottish folk singer and songwriter Daisy Chute performing a gorgeous stripped back version of her single Troubador Boy accompanied by Midori Jaeger on cello. Don’t miss her live-stream ticketed show on Saturday 3rd April.
Our Song of the Day comes from Anna Leone with ‘Still I Wait. The accompanying video which was filmed on the Azores archipelago at an abandoned hospital is incredibly moving, as is the song in all its fragile beauty.
Featuring new music from Piers Faccini, Aoife O’Donovan featuring Kris Drever, The Brother Brothers, Black Twig Pickers, Christina Alden & Alex Patterson. Plus music from Joni Mitchell, Sandy Denny, Punch Brothers, Marry Waterson & David A. Jaycock, Dawn Landes and more.
Heath Cullen’s ‘Springtime In The Heart’ finally gets a full physical release after its digital release last year. It may be springtime in the heart, but Cullen is a master music maker for all its seasons.
Suitably autumnal in musical textures to match the tenor of the lyrics, it may be a few months early but it marks the calendar of the heart with a quiet sense of grace in resignation.
Quarterman’s ‘Carondelet’ album is disarmingly simple and beguiling in its songs of bruised hearts and battered hopes…listen once and you’ll be wanting to listen again almost immediately afterwards.
“We’ve got stars above our head and stars beneath our feet”, sings Meyer on the final track of the self-titled Oka Venga, a fine summation of this stellar album.
Christina Alden & Alex Patterson, of Alden Patterson and Dashwood, share their video for “Hunter”, a song inspired by the real-life bond of a wolf and bear. It’s also the title track of their new album due for release in May.
