Last month so the release of A Nothern View, the new album from Belfast-based band Arborist, the brainchild of songwriter Mark McCambridge. Watch him performing the lead track live, also our Song of the Day.
Ahead of a very special gig at Hackney Wick’s ‘The Old Baths’, Fran and Flora’s track La Obreja, a traditional song from Banat, Transylvania, get’s the remix treatment by fellow experimental contemporaries Portico Quartet.
Canadian musician Dan Mangan shares short film With Me in which he stars alongside Canadian actress Chilina Kennedy. The short film is a new interpretation of Mangan’s song Fool For Waiting.
Totally improvised and recorded live in a single take, Adam Summerhayes and Murray Grainger’s “Untold” is work of startling, immediate beauty. It is a rich, durable and mercurial sound that will reward repeated listens.
An incredible one-off celebration of the early music of Fleetwood Mac will be screened in cinemas across the country in June, as Mick Fleetwood and a stellar cast of guest stars pay tribute to the music of founding member, Peter Green.
Seven years on from her excellent debut, Anna Lynch returns with a five-track acoustic EP of heartbreak rural Americana. If you’ve not discovered her yet, then do yourself a favour and check this out.
As sophomore releases go, ‘A Dobritch Did As A Dobritch Should’ is almost as seismic a leap as one could imagine from their debut. Musically, this is an accomplished, engaging offering, with high-quality contributions and performances from all involved.
Untied Kingdom makes a truly inspiring and magnificently empowering sound: the voices of Commoners Choir combine a gutsy, edgy delivery with an enviably well-drilled precision – an exhilarating display of rousing natural togetherness, of pride and of passion.
Sunset Canyoneers doesn’t pretend to be anything more than unabashed retro nostalgia for the halcyon tambourine following, the hickory wind blowing days of American folk-rock and every child of the universe. And rather fine it is too.
Wednesday’s Child finds Hana in a more restrained and contemplative mood as she switches to harp for a ten-track conceptual narrative of atmospheric balladry that will also feature a standalone illustrated book. Intoxicatingly haunting.
Olympia, WA-based experimental indie-folk duo The Lowest Pair are set to return with a new full-length, The Perfect Plan, in April followed by an extensive UK tour. Check out their new single Too Late Babe.
