The Routes Quartet live up to their liner notes by using all of the possible tones and textures of a string quartet. A deceptively simple album that is carried off with a real feel for the music. It’s a truly cathartic listen.
With just a few weeks to go before the start of this year’s event, Port Eliot Festival is excited to announce the latest group of artists that will appear on stages across the ancient St Germans site.
Our latest mix in our Lost in Transmission series features new music from our Artist of the Month Eiks, Offa Rex, This is the Kit, Sam Amidon, Merlyn Driver, Josienne Clarke & Kit Downs, Robin Elliott and more.
Sam Baker’s last release was declared one of the 10 best Americana albums of 2013. Working in Nashville for the first time under producer Neilson Hubbard, Land of Doubt should repeat the feat for 2017.
We rejoin David Morrison at Campbell Bay Music Festival in British Columbia as he shares the highlights of a very hot Day Two featuring Shelder the Electric Clamfish, Tremblers of Sevens, The Stash! Band, Cuddle Magic & more.
“I’ll Be Yours” is a lively, well-produced album, featuring the diverse styles this band brings to the table. They draw from the great American tradition – Solid songwriting and top-notch musicianship should get The Americans some much-deserved attention.
MUTE unveil new video for CAN’s Vitamin C. Also, to celebrate the release of CAN – The Singles, they have put together The Story Of Can, illustrating the breadth of their incredible legacy through sampling, remixes and cover versions.
Martin Simpson shares a new video in which he talks about his new album Trails & Tribulations which will be released on September 1st, 2017 via Topic Records. He also reveals why this album sounds so different to what he’s done before.
In a special two-part series David Morrison shares his highlights of this year’s Campbell Bay Music Festival on Mayne Island, British Columbia. Day One includes Fish & Bird, Roger Roger, The Revelers, Top Men, Distant Grand and more.
Ontario-based singer/songwriter Matt Paxton recorded his new EP ‘Hunter Street Station Blues’ in early Spring of 2017 when he reveals he “was indeed hauling a heavy heart…” Listen to the first track ‘Baby Don’t Go’ – about holding on to love and trying to make it all work.
“Songs have very curious existences… they live lives of their own outside and beyond us”. So says American kind-of-folklorist Jake Xerxes Fussell, whose new long player is crafted from history and musical posterity. We got him started on his focus and listened in.
Dellar plays with many styles on this impressive album and the picking is so beautifully human throughout that it feels like an antithesis to many of the click-track recorded sessions we hear.
