On Prophecy Playground’s debut ‘Comfort Zone’ – elements of English bucolic poke through, swirl around with the sprites of the guitars, the subtle lush backdrops of strings, and with the lyrics that may mean something or may mean nothing.
Featuring Skipper’s Alley, Breabach, The Bonny Men, The Spook of the Thirteenth Lock, The Deadlians, Trembling Bells, Declan O’Rourke, Ensemble Ériu, Lisa O’Neill, Joe Heaney, Ye Vagabonds, Brìghde Chaimbeul, Jiggy, Ross Ainslie and Ali Hutton, Martyn Bennett, Shooglenifty and more.
There are few folk outfits working today as interesting and unpredictable as Canada’s Aerialists. Their new offering ‘Sienna’ is a masterfully performed collection of intriguing, often haunting material.
This week sees the release of Rachel Baiman’s new solo song ‘Wrong Way Round’, recorded with Philippe Bronchtein (Hip Hatchet), which was written in tribute to her late paternal grandmother. Listen here.
Boogieing with the best of them, Green Leaf Rustlers show why they are an uncontrollable force of nature. For those who have been lucky enough to see them, the memories will last a lifetime. For the rest of us, at least we have From Within Marin.
Joined by The Excess – Pete Flood on drums and Pete Thomas on bass – Benji Kirkpatrick delivers a glorious and powerful sound on Gold Has Worn Away, a persuasive and impressive album.
Watch the second in a series of acoustic sessions from Modern Hinterland featuring music from their latest album The Longest Part of the Night – here they are performing a stripped back version of I’m Not One of the Free.
Featuring music from Lou Rogai, Cabane, Claire Cronin, M G Boulter & S Whates, Brigid Mae Power, Nadia Reid, Collectress, Lewsberg, Mosses, Elkhorn, Boduf Songs, Andrew Tuttle, Mr Alec Bowman, Ali Dineen and more.
Today marks the release of ‘China Mind’, the debut EP from singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Heather McClelland. Watch her new video for Can’t Be Enough featuring animation by Evelyn Valentine.
Taken from their latest album Refuge which finds them collaborating with over 30 musicians from across the glove, Sultans of String reveal video Asi Soy (This is Me) featuring Israeli artist Yasmin Levy.
Taken from her forthcoming album ‘All Is Not Forgotten’, which finds Scottish singer songwriter Siobhan Miller returning to her roots, watch “May Morning Dew”, also our Song of the Day.
