Elkington’s Ever-Roving Eye is a compelling, characterful and mesmerising album. Listening to its intricate layerings and meticulous, deliquescent fingerpicking, one can well understand the desire he had for perfection.
‘I’ll never write a song as good as Chuck Berry’s Maybellene,’ says Teddy Thompson when introducing these songs…but he comes oh so close, proving once again he is much more than the sum of his lineage.
This month should have been Sam Sweeney’s album launch tour, so, on Wednesday evening (6 May), we have decided to re-stream Sam’s Listening Club of his new album Unearth Repeat.
Our Song of the Day comes from David Delarre and Josh Brough who, over the past 9 years, David has had the pleasure of teaching the guitar. The results speak for themselves.
Watch Somewhere South, a beautiful short film about Devon-based Lignum Surfboards who make eco-friendly hollow wooden surfboards. Their philosophy is that ‘every board can carve its own path when crafted with passion and soul.’
Don’t miss Leigh Folk Festival’s “Front Room Folk Festival ” this weekend, a two-day digital fundraising broadcast and celebration of everything Leigh Folk Festival, including music, storytelling, spoken word, workshops, dance, poetry, video messages and interviews.
Listen to out latest KLOF mix ft. Asazi Space Funk Explosion, Cath and Phil Tyler, Elle Osborne, Wounded Knee, Toby Hay & David Ian Roberts, Tisso Lake, James Yorkston, Sarah Louise and more.
Today, Toby Hay & David Ian Roberts are releasing a new EP titled ‘CAPEL Y GRAIG – Improvisations’. For the month of May, all proceeds go to Tŷ Hafan, the hospice for children in Wales.
Watch the new video teaser for Fay Hield’s new album Wrackline, set for release in September. Fay is accompanied on the new album by a stellar cast of some of the finest folk musicians working today; Rob Harbron, Sam Sweeney, Ben Nicholls and Ewan MacPherson.
Alex Rainer’s ‘Time Changes’ is a mature album which seems to meander between eras in terms of composition and lyrical style while portraying the sense that we are all transient and nothing is stable and there is nothing truer than that.
Dublin’s The Bonny Men reveal music video – Visceral movement, animal imagery and wild traditional music collide in this piece that creeps and crawls its way under the skin.
Avocet may not have been travelling that long but they are definitely travelling in the right direction. Their 2018 Borrowed Seed EP was an attention grabber and this, their first full-length album, is no different. Excellent.
