Bill Mackay and Nathan Bowles ‘Keys’ was an album we were excited about and it delivers at every turn. An engaging album with a glorious set of instrumentals and sang numbers. Plus new video ‘Dowsing’.
Celebrating the French and Weimar cabaret era, the former Wailin’ Jennys member Annabelle Chvostek digs into her East European heritage alongside her Canadian background and marital Uruguayan influences for this gloriously ebullient sixth album ‘Strong of Pearls’.
Michael Feuerstack’s “Harmonize the Moon” is an album that will stay with you for a while…If you’re going through anything emotionally at all, you will cry at some point. The lyrics are so wrenchingly on point.
‘Wild’, is taken from Sun Collective’s forthcoming EP ‘New Light’. Featuring Lisa Hannigan & Patrick O’Laoghaire, watch the accompanying video by award-winning director/writer and VFX specialist, Kevin Cahill. Outstanding on all fronts.
Coming on the back of a personally traumatic year, ‘The Fray’ has a grip of iron. John Smith says these are the most honest songs he’s ever written…hard to disagree. Featuring an assemblage of stellar musicians it’s a shoo-in for the best of the year lists.
We owe thanks to a data salvaging company for 3hattrio’s ‘Lost Sessions’. Mike Davies advises “Not one to have you sing along perhaps, but, pour a tumbler of mescal, crush in a few psychotropic salvia leaves and let your inner ghost dog off the leash.”
Taken from one of our all-time favourite albums and also our Song of the Day, watch the new video for Brave Marin, performed by Alasdair Roberts, Neil McDermott, Tartine de Clous.
Taco Tapes premiere their video for their cover of Michelle Shocked’s ‘Black Widow’ in which they turn a shoreline walk into a surreal experience…making reality feel strangely out-of-kilter, and for that, we love it all the more.
At the start of her debut album ‘Hands’, Lotta St Joan promised truth, and she delivered, holding nothing back. It’s a melancholic trip through the grieving process of love lost.
Jon Boden has announced his ‘Last Mile Home’ launch show on which he will be joined by the Remnant Strings and Edith the phonograph player when you can hear ‘Last Mile Home’ in full, along with some tracks from ‘Songs from the Floodplain’ and ‘Afterglow’.
Transatlantic is the latest single from Aoife O’Donovan featuring Kris Drever. Musicians include Euan Burton, Louis Abbott and Jeremy Kittel. Watch the accompanying video.
Solitary Company, the third album from Joshua Tree-based duo Son of the Velvet Rat, is redolent of the stark beauty of their Mojave home. Their finest yet; an album of the year.
