With its beautiful Clyde coast setting, a community at its heart, the very best Scottish music and the added attraction of the finest Scottish food, drink and art; Argyll Gathering 2017 is set to become one of Scotland’s most memorable annual festivals.
We talk to Twelfth Day about their new bold album Cracks in the Room, their writing process, working with Chris Wood and gender discrimination in the music industry. They are on tour now in Germany and return to the UK in June.
Watch Carrie & Lowell Live, an audio and visual document of Sufjan Steven’s November 9, 2015, performance at North Charleston Performing Arts Center in South Carolina.
Where the River Meets the Road is an impressive and affectionate showcase for the songwriting talents of all these West Virginians (including Tim O’Brien himself) alongside his own considerable gifts as a talented musician and interpreter of songs.
Watch the latest video from MADAM (aka Sukie Smith). Three Sixes took the best part of a year to complete, was Directed by Richard Morel and was shot in part on a spaceship he built in his house.
Inver, the debut album by three-piece ambient folk band HAV, has been slowly brewing for three years. Accordingly, the music they make together proves to be a slow-burning pleasure. A profoundly moving and expressive album that is the perfect antidote to quick fixes and empty gestures.
Watch Children (Don’t You Know), the new single from Katie Spencer, a progressive-folk singer-songwriter/guitarist inspired by the people and her surroundings in the Yorkshire countryside. Taken from her debut Mini-Album ‘Good Morning Sky’.
Little Me Time finds Latham recording outside of his home studio for the first time, enlisting an ensemble of local talent. Anti-folk has come a long way from the early days at Sidewalk Café, and, as demonstrated here, the music industry is a more colourful place because of it.
Crammed Discs announce soundtrack album from Alain Gomis’ film Félicité, (Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize at the 2017 Berlin Film Festival) featuring the Congolese collective Kasai Allstars.
Listen to Invisibility, from Brooklyn-based trio Everything Turned To Color. Introspective yet forthright, the lyrics are a self-admission of brokenness and fragility – a recognition of past transgressions and an optimistic look towards the future.
Rising stars of the South West folk scene, Kadia, return with their latest EP ‘The Outlandish Collection’. Recorded in the studio, it allowed them to exercise a greater freedom and flexibility which comes across in a richer fuller sound.
Brown Bird’s journey continues with this release. A Light I Can Feel is that rare cover album that expands the sound of the band, adding to their legacy. Listeners who want to join that continuing voyage should check it out.
