Singer-songwriter and Bear’s Den touring member Christof van der Ven is to release his long-awaited debut album ‘Empty Handed’ this week. Listen in full and read his track-by-track guide.
Molly Drake was a songwriter of vivid vision and an author of strange, calm, ambiguous poems which deserve to be remembered on their own terms. This release will go some way towards making sure that happens.
Connecticut singer-songwriter Jesse Terry returns with his fifth album ‘Natural’. Featuring a collection of duets with his favourite female singers it’s an incredibly soothing album – a natural remedy to ease away the stress at the end of the day.
Thom Ashworth leaves us wanting more on his latest EP ‘Hollow’, but it is one of those rare occasions when, having heard it for the first time, you want to listen to it again and again.
Watch King of Catastrophes, the new video from Grant-Lee Phillips – “a bundle of anxieties, disguised as a lullaby. I tried to squeeze in every cataclysm I could think of in three minutes, all the ones that rhymed at least”
Richard catches Josienne and Ben in Leicester – “there is a new maturity to them – the melancholia is still there, the introspection and self-reflection survive, but the control has shifted and a new path is being explored.”
Veteran singer songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter has just released ‘Sometimes just the Sky’, a reimagined set of songs that span a thirty-plus year long career. We met to chat about the inspiration behind the project.
The creative director of a performing arts promotion charity on the Isle of Skye has been rewarded for a quarter of a century of dedicated service to his community and Scottish traditional music.
In the latest video from Aidan O’Rourke and Kit Downes, they are joined by author James Robertson who reads his short story ‘Imagination’ as they perform their musical response. They are on tour this month.
St. Peter is an album full of shimmering, finely crafted layers. Emma Tricca has employed an enviable array of talented collaborators to help achieve this unique effect, but it is her own approach to music-making that really marks this out as a serious piece of work and her best album to date.
All praise to Fledg’ling for not only rescuing this superb collection from wherever it had been gathering dust but, in the process, bringing West’s name back into the spotlight she deserves as one of the great revivalists of American folk music
Born in London, but raised in Brooklyn, The High Cost of Living Strange is Ben de la Cour’s fourth album. Trading in what he terms Americanoir, this album won’t let you down.
