The Story Song Scientists is a wonderfully intriguing release which showcases intelligent songwriting and delightful voices in equal measure. I hope that we have have not seen or heard the last of their working together to produce music of the finest quality.
Our Song of the Day comes from Lonesome Leash, the solo project Walt McClement. Watch his new music video for lead single “Driving” (ft. Mirah) off recent release Delicate Art.
On Stick In The Wheel’s second ‘From Here’ compilation well-known interpreters of traditional song rub shoulders with experimental folkies while Brit-folk royalty has a place at the table alongside impassioned protest-singers.
Watch ‘By the River’ by London-based five-piece The Alvarez Theory – the first single from their eponymous debut album which will be released May 24th and launched the same day at Camden’s Green Note.
Inspired by ‘Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow’ by Prof. Yuval Noah Harari, a historian, philosopher and best-selling author, watch the video for God is an Algorithm, the new single from Kev Minney.
Listen in full to Letters from the Border, the debut album from British poet, songwriter, composer and multi-instrumentalist Ben Osborn. The result of an extraordinary musical partnership with the head of Nonostar Records – German experimental violinist Alex Stolze.
A consummate songwriter, Tivel’s attention to detail, both physical and emotional, draws you into the worlds her songs describe and inhabit, sometimes leaving you in tears, sometimes filled with radiance. Seek your answers within.
Watch the new video from Ifriqiyya Electrique for Mashee Kooka, taken from their latest album Laylet el Booree which fuses the rhythms and invocations of the ancient Saharan Banga ritual…both grips and awakens.
Watch London-based multi-national indie pop band The Alpacas performing ‘Have You Ever’, their first single since their debut album Pictures of You. The single is released this Friday, 19th May.
I have believed for a long time that there is magic contained in forms of improvised music that cannot be found in others and this album by Cormac Byrne and Adam Summerhayes certainly backs that theory. Their Stone Soup project is the best thing I have heard so far this year.
Wherever you find yourself on the way “From A to B,” The Diamond Family Archive offers you a mind-bending soundtrack en route. The sonorous landscapes in the album are unmistakably British and peculiarly beautiful.
To celebrate the reissue of Anne Briggs’ eponymous 1971 album we gave away a rare test pressing of the eponymous classic which was signed by Anne. And the winner is…
