David Kidman

On Annabelle Chvostek’s latest release ‘Be The Media’ she’s gone back to her indie roots. She may have described her earlier album Resilience as “a big complicated hug”, due to its warm enveloping nature, but ‘Be The Media’, despite initial appearances of spiky acerbity, turns out to be just as enveloping in its own way.

What a week it is for The Young’uns having just picked up the BBC Folk Award for Best Group they launch their new album ‘Another Man’s Ground’ this week at The Sage Gateshead. They’ve been on quite a journey since their humble beginnings, one that continues to grow and develop.

Olivia Chaney’s been acclaimed as a major talent by media and critics, and naturally expectations have run high for the eventual release of a full-length album. This is probably one of the longest-awaited debut albums in the recent history of Brit-folk. She doesn’t disappoint.

These new editions are both handsome and pretty much definitive, and likely the most desirable ones to have residing permanently in your Tyrannosaurus Rex collection.

Alasdair has produced an album that conjures, through its own uniquely relaxed, quiet and inclusive intimacy, an earthly and worldly – and yet almost unearthly and otherworldly – magic, of a very special kind.

Trusting In The Rising Light is a work of satisfying depth whose precision of execution embodies a true warmth and humanity. It just has to be counted amongst Robin’s best work to date.

English traditional folk music meets Tuvan roots in The Goshawk Project as Carole Pegg (Mr Fox) teams up with Tuvan throat-singer and musician Radik Tülüsh.