One of Scotland’s most progressive outfits Modern Studies announce ‘Welcome Strangers’, an album of modernist pop weirdness for the 21st century, a bricolage where classicism meets experimentalism and repeated listening unearths new stories for this contemporary age.
Hannah Sanders and Ben Savage have launched a crowdfunding campaign for their new album Awake, one they believe to be their best yet, produced by David Travers-Smith and featuring musicians from both sides of the Atlantic.
The Ballad of Shirley Collins soundtrack is a great springboard to find out more. It is also an anthology, or a miscellany, that whilst having a foot back in time – sixty years ago and even before that – it also has a foot in the present.
Alessi’s Ark releases a warming video this winter for the single ‘DLD (Door Light Dream)’ from her new album Love is the Currency, produced by Jago Jago, and in collaboration with Felix and Will White of the Maccabees.
Here’s A Health is an album with many attractive aspects and several assets: A good choice of song, an appealing underlying humour and the production really brings out the strengths of their clear voices and close harmonies.
Lee Ranaldo embarks on a European tour this week with the Electric Trim Trio (Ranaldo, Raül Refree and Booker Stardrum) and has also announced a Q&A and screening of Hello Hello Hello.
The new Low Anthem album requires you take the time to fully listen and absorb, but like immersion in brine baths, the results have an unexpectedly relaxing and calming effect.
The Handsome Family have announced the release of a 20th Anniversary Edition of Through The Trees on 9th March via Loose Music. To celebrate, watch their brand new music video for Weightless Again and don’t miss their European Tour which kicks off the beginning of March.
We talk to Irish fiddle player Martin Hayes at Celtic Connections, the day after The Martin Hayes Quartet delivered an outstanding, hugely energetic performance, about how he got from Clare to here.
Listen to ‘Bathed In Light’, our Song of the Day taken from Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker’s forthcoming album ‘Seedlings All’ (out March 23rd on Rough Trade Records).
London’s Green Note announces ‘Like A Women’, a musical celebration for International Women’s Day on Thursday 8th March ft. Michele Stodart, Jane Siberry, Emily Barker, Ren Harvieu, Kathryn Williams, Karima Francis and Raevennan Husbandes.
