Find The Ways is a genuinely original album. It is rare for an album to successfully bridge the gap between the contemporary and the antiquated, but Allred and Broderick do it so well that you don’t even notice the joins.
For his latest album, In Buenos Aires, the innovative Fraser Fifield headed to Argentina with bagpipes and low whistle to join three of the most highly regarded exponents of New Tango: Walther E. Castro, Quique Sinesi and Mono Hurtado.
Steamchicken are a band with attitude, and their latest offering, ‘Look Both Ways’ is a great example of their energy and style. The whole album positively fizzes with technical ability and joy.
We talk to George Nigel Hoyle (Cunning Folk) about his fascination with the ritual English landscape and his vast musical influences from Anne Briggs to Brian Eno. He also shares his fascination with ritual…”they signpost where we are & where we have come from.”
Our Song of the Day is Ruth Theodore’s toe-tapping ‘Kissing in Traffic’, watch her new animated video and don’t miss her UK tour dates which still include London, Brighton, Llandudno and Milton Keynes.
Listen to In the Wrong, by Australian alt-folk band The Royal Parks, from their forthcoming debut album Suburb Home, an album of dreamy folk songs featuring soaring three-part-harmonies.
Dan Walsh’s latest offering, Verging On The Perpendicular, is the perfect balance of authenticity and flair. Without ever ignoring the past, it points the way to an exciting future for banjo music.
Watch Moscow, the new single from Joe Innes and the Cavalcade, from their upcoming album ‘Foreign Domestic Policy,’ a stunningly poignant and relevant piece of work in these uncertain times.
London-based singer-songwriter Robert Sunday releases two mini-albums via Rif Mountain collective. The songs have a beguiling quality dealing with the central concepts of memory, love and time.
We have a double helping today from Bay area singer Garret Pierce, Two tracks from his new album Dusk including ‘Enough,’ a song he wrote in response to the troubling mental health and homelessness in San Francisco.
New Lore, is Sean Rowe’s fifth album, a fine showcase for his throaty, rumbling baritone and moodily affecting songs of loneliness and longing, augmented throughout by piano and strings. An album that infuses itself into your heart and soul.
A new mix from our Lost in Transmission Series featuring Karima Walker, Human Behavior, Dan Blakeslee, Robert Sunday, Alex Rex, HMS Ginafore, Harrow Fair, Dirtwire, Mount Eerie, Allred & Broderick and more.
