Faustus have long shown they can use three voices with very different characters, in just about any combination, to present their pick of English traditional songs. With this album, their musicianship has been given more room to shine, producing music that is true to its roots, relevant to today and, above all, ridiculously enjoyable.

The new video from Fabrizio Cammarata is quite unlike anything we’ve seen before – beautifully choreographed and hypnotic…”There’s a universal sign language we’re not conscious about, but it’s there. You can fall in love in the beauty of a single gesture”.

Fronted by alternative south Wales music scene veteran, Chris Ridgeway, the oddly monikered Welsh outfit Cakehole Presley release their second album. Completed last year, it was put on hold following the passing of co-leader Mark Humphries, it serves as a fine tribute to him.

Cocos Lovers (7-piece band of family, friends and former au pairs) who hail from Deal have announced a November UK Tour supporting Will Varley and have shared a new video of them performing ‘Soil To The Sun’ live.

Read our in-depth interview with Nancy Kerr as she discusses her new album ‘Instar’, the reaction to it, politics in music, balancing her musical life with being a mother, and she also offers her own words of wisdom on surviving in the music industry.

This week, Welsh singer-songwriter Danielle Lewis releases her new EP ‘Fly,’ a release which will be followed by a wave of growing opportunities as she performs at BBC’s Maida Vale studio over the weekend and appears on S4C’s ‘Heno’ on Monday.

Lewis & Leigh Announce 2017 Headline Tour which kicks off at Celtic Connections. Watch their latest video for Keep Your Ghost, taken from their debut album ‘Ghost’ which is out now.

O’Hooley & Tidow invite you to their alternative celebration of Christmas as they announce their WinterFolk tour featuring winter songs and carols. Plus listen to them performing a cover of Joni Mitchell’s ‘River’.

Beoga’s new album will undoubtedly be popular with their existing fan base, but their maturing approach to composition and arrangement will also appeal to a wider audience, one that may be new to what Beoga offer, but are sure to be instantly enchanted by this absolute charmer of an album.

Watch the award-winning short film ‘La Madre Buena’ (The Good Mother) by up and coming female Yorkshire based director Sarah Clift.The tale of a Mexican mother torn between her politics and pleasing her only son’s birthday wish – to have a Donald Trump piñata.

With Wild Hog, The Furrow Collective have surpassed their excellent debut with a set of songs that is mature, intelligent and experimental. The quartet at the heart of this record, for all their differing styles, have hit upon something that has a rare sparkle to it. A deceptively simple, spell-bindingly beautiful record.

Those people, whom she honours and sings for, represent the “past generations who have sung those songs to us and carried them through”. And in doing so, Shirley has produced an album of true stature, and one that’s destined to remain in your affections.