This brand new offering from the intensely versatile Swan-Dyer partnership is the product of their latest obsession – contra dance music. Don’t be sidetracked by its primarily dance-based rationale, but treat it as a pure – and purely enjoyable – listening experience.
Bandcamp have announced that they are to waive all revenue shares in sales today, Friday, 20 March, in order to help support artists affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Amalie Bruun successfully bridges the gap between Death Metal and acoustic folk making Folkesange an album you owe it to yourself to hear again and again.
Pavey Ark’s debut album tugs at the emotions with joy and sorrow in equal measure. Close Your Eyes And Think Of Nothing is, in a sense, a call to arms from a band that demands to be heard. It is a perfect antidote for these uncertain days.
Watch the accompanying video for Fran Wyburn’s gorgeous Spring Anthem ‘Snowdrops and Me’, from her debut album ‘Wood for the Trees’ – a serene hypnotic waltz between Fran’s soaring, ethereal vocals and George Birkett’s delicate and bewitching guitar.
Rattle on the Stovepipe’s “Through The Woods” is possibly even finer than their previous albums while Dave Arthur’s new release is a compilation of sorts, spanning the 15+ years of Dave’s tenure with the band he himself founded back in the early-noughties.
Downhill Uplift is the sort of album that will sound different every time you listen to it, and while it takes inspiration from a cluster of well-worn genres, the way those genres are meshed together seems entirely novel. The work of an extremely proficient musician and his band.
In a message to fans about practising social distancing, Ane Brun streams her live concert ‘Leave Me Breathless” from Oslo Spektrum (2018) for the first time online.
Watch ‘Safe Mode’, the first single from Mr. Alec Bowman’s forthcoming album, ‘I Used To Be Sad & Then I Forgot’. It isn’t going to fix your problems, but it might just help boost the signal & help you feel heard.
Watch We All Fall, a song with a lesson, taken from ‘Bet on Love’, the new ‘homegrown’ album from Pharis and Jason Romero – a modern folk ode – to sentimental anchorings and to relationships between place, people and time.
We hear from two musicians – Buck Curran and Adele from Bergamo, Italy, a city in lockdown and one of the worst-hit cities by the coronavirus. Besides the threat of the virus they also now face the challenge of trying to make a living and supporting a growing family.
As debuts go, War to the Palaces is very impressive indeed. Recorded, mixed, produced and mastered by Ragged Trousers’ own David Hirst, it’s also a pretty accurate representation of what they offer live. So let’s have more please, lads – and soon!
