Our Song of the Day is ‘Fine Horseman’ from Lal and Mike Waterson’s 1972 folk-noir masterpiece Bright Phoebus which will be reissued by Domino on August 4th including a deluxe version containing 12 demos for the album.
While The Burying Ground may be devoted to the precious music of a long gone golden era, they still have an awful lot to offer the present and future, as music this good is evidently timeless.
Yorkston/Thorne/Khan announce news of Chori Chori Remixes EP which will be released on June 24th. Listen to the remix of ‘Chori Chori’ by Irish alt-folk and electronica alchemist Seamus Fogarty.
What is perhaps most impressive about Peasant is the way it invents and develops – seemingly with ease – a world, an entirely new ancient landscape that has its own musical language. Richard Dawson has created a genuinely outstanding and astounding work of art.
Three years on, Luke Tuchscherer returns with Always Be True, a more sonically fleshed out affair that, as the press release notes, comes with echoes of Uncle Tupelo, Tom Petty and Steve Earle.
After his critically acclaimed debut album under the moniker Det Stora Monstret (2014), singer-songwriter Jacob Johansson returns with a brand-new venture to sit alongside it: Mount Song. Watch the latest video Here it Goes.
With Oumou Sangaré’s mesmerising vocals, irresistible beats, and soulful social justice commentary, Mogoya is an album to continually return to for strength and celebration.
Listen to ‘The Hold Up’ by Whetherman, a song on which he merges the parallels of financial instability with gun violence. It features on his forthcoming album ‘This Land’ which pays homage to the collective messages spread by Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger.
The chemistry between Jenna Moynihan and Màiri Chaimbeul is a tangible, palpable entity at the heart of their new album ‘One Two’, making for as natural a sound as I have yet heard in contemporary, instrumental acoustic music.
Iron & Wine will release Beast Epic, his first new material in over four years, on 25th August via Sub Pop. He has also delivered a video for the lead track, “Call It Dreaming,” which stars the singer and was directed by J. Austin Wilson. Watch it here.
Toronto mandolin maestro Andrew Collins and his trio partners have recorded an album which defies categorisation but which draws on a myriad of classical and folk influences – full of beauty, quirks and top notch musicianship.
