An engaging, visionary record that blends many different influences and styles into a compelling whole, a very personal ode to a strange and enchanting land that will forever continue to baffle and intrigue.

Anglo-French acoustic dance combo Topette!! are on tour through December (ft. Andy Cutting, James Delarre, Julien Cartonnet, Tania Buisse, and Barnaby Stradling), one band you know you can keep warm to no matter how cold the venue…you just dance! Plus they are recording an album…all fantastic news!

Our Song of the Day is from singer-songwriter Gitta De Ridder with her new video for Wanderer taken from her recently released album Feathers. The video features footage shot by Gitta over the time she made the album travelling between Devon, London and the Dutch countryside.

Watch Break Out, the new music video from Copenhagen-based electronic folk-rock outfit Rainbrother. Taken from their forthcoming album Tales From The Drought, produced by Noah Georgeson (The Strokes, Joanna Newsom, Devendra Banhart).

These two well-travelled veterans of the folk music scene have still got a great deal to say and can still say it with style. That they have chosen to say it together, for this album at least, is something we should all be grateful for.

Lady Maisery’s live performance banishes thoughts of the cold and a sore throat for our reviewer Thomas as he declares: Lady Maisery have proved themselves one of the most invigorating and talented live acts around. They are a rare tonic in these troubled times.

Laura Marling has announced details of her sixth album Semper Femina. Watch her directorial debut with the video for the first fruits of the record and the album’s opening track, Soothing.

We have two pairs of tickets to giveaway to the Scots Trad Music Awards this coming Saturday 3rd December at Dundee’s Caird Hall. Here’s a reminder of the Album of the Year shortlist.

Doghouse Roses return with their third album featuring a number of guest musicians including Jez Hellard and Laura-Beth Salter of The Shee. One that’s well worth the wait and is quite simply, their best work yet.

We talk to author and journalist George Monbiot and Scottish guitarist and balladeer Ewan McLennan about their album Breaking the Spell of Loneliness. “To this day song can and does continue to speak about the world around us, to document the undocumented, and to rail against the injustices of our time.”

Scottish duo Catriona Price and Esther Swift who sail under the name of Twelfth Day recently launched a Kickstarter Campaign for their new album Cracks In The Room, their “most honest, raw and exciting work yet.”

Hard to believe, but it’s twenty years since Gillian Welch released her groundbreaking debut album, Revival. To mark the occasions, she’s been through the archives and, along with musical partner David Rawlings, has put together Boots No 1: The Official Revival Bootleg, a double disc 21 track collection of demos, outtakes, alternate takes and other previously unreleased tracks.