A welcome return from Folk Radio UK favourites Arborea: Becoming the Latin root of their name, their fifth album Fortress of the Sun transcends eras like the roots of an ancient tree and tells stories in meditative glimpses.
It has taken the Edinburgh post folk band eagleowl eight years to grow their debut album. This Silent Year is a thoughtful progression of summers past and hangs about the house like insomnia waiting for the morning.
There are insects who navigate by the stars and there are people who are drawn to the sea. Moddi’s second album Set the House on Fire provides a soundtrack for the lost and looking and for those stuck with that inexplicable seaside longing.
Remember the giddiness of spinning around, wide-eyed, arms flailing? And how trees blur into houses blur into people which keep spinning lazily even after you have stopped? That is what it feels like listening to Ólöf Arnalds’s third album Sudden Elevation.
