Danny Neill

Finally, there is one place to go for anyone who wants the complete works of Richard & Linda Thompson… it’s exactly what you want from an essential archive trawling box set.

Danny Neill chats to Joshua Burnell, our Artist of the Month, whose new album ‘Flowers Where The Horses Sleep’ is receiving many gushing plaudits, including our own. From creativity to prog…we dig deeper.

Joshua Burnell grabs our attention and imagination with this brilliantly accessible album, bursting at the seams with ideas, imagery and an assured ability with melody and song structure. Outstanding.

‘Keep It Light’ finds Steven Adams in particularly fine fettle and as dependably entertaining as ever. If you’re looking for an entry point then start here and work your way back.

Saskia’s latest offering ‘Are You Listening’ is a sublime and reflective album that will mesmerize the listener, and is always underpinned with optimism and hope for the future.

Bitter Better is a glorious, widescreen recording that is full of life. Even when contemplating its ups and downs, there’s an energy and vitality to the work.

In many ways this could be seen as a companion piece to 13 Rivers – it should find a home amongst any music collection belonging to lovers of rich, melodic, song composition.

A super quality live album that both serves as a broad showcase for the music of one of the modern era’s most gifted singer-songwriter’s, in the classic style of such craftsmen, and a pristine document of a great night out on the live circuit in late 2019.

LaVere has a musical grain worthy of a household name and ‘Painting Blue’ is a piece of audio medicine for the difficult times we are living in and an album that will enrich any music collection, get on it now folks.

‘Time in the Trees’ reveals so much more than you may initially be ready for, making it ripe for repeated listening – it should get us all thinking about our relationship with the natural world amid the clutter of the electronic jungle that can monopolise our attention.

As a unit, Darling West are solid, assured and continue to embark on a cosmic journey that this record shows, is unfolding with a bold maturity…a super quality album.

Aoife Nessa Frances has untapped a natural spring of expression and realised the strongest of debuts. This music is all about alerting your inner senses, the silent self that occupies a less defined dreamscape and it works spectacularly well if you are of a mind to go on that journey.