Glenn Kimpton

The Time to Come confirms Eli as a talent far beyond his years and a guitar player to watch; if this set is any indication, there will be many more great things to come from Mr Winter.

I have believed for a long time that there is magic contained in forms of improvised music that cannot be found in others and this album by Cormac Byrne and Adam Summerhayes certainly backs that theory. Their Stone Soup project is the best thing I have heard so far this year.

Coming in the style of Gillian Welch and Milk Carton Kids, the UK’s Copper Viper are beginning to run, with their debut album now out. We chatted about recording the album, classic duos and condenser microphones.

Cut it Down, Count the Rings does not feel much like a debut album. The songs and performances are strong and confident, the playing, too, is top-draw – it all feels at once new and utterly focused and considered. Hats fully off to Copper Viper.

Kinloch Nelson is a skilled player whose technique and broad repertoire inform his modest and intelligent guitar playing. There is a lot to enjoy and admire and indeed return to inside this forty minutes of material.

Brooklyn based solo guitar player (and Ancient Ocean member) J.R. Bohannon’s newly extended mini-album, originally self-released on Bandcamp, now being put out by Phantom Limb records is an album of deliberately paced and played gems.

With their superb fourth album Diversions now out, busy super-folk trio Leveret spoke to us about spontaneity in the band, shifting roles and playing with better musicians.

Diversions is the clearest statement of Leveret’s ability yet, an album packed with beautiful, gentle, energetic and fluid works, and it fully establishes this band as one of the very finest in English instrumental music.

Michael Chapman’s ‘True North’ is a raw and honest album from a musician well aware of the legacy behind him and his place on that timeline. It is lean, unpretentious, wonderfully played and so very listenable throughout.

North Carolina guitarist Sarah Louise has become a master of manipulation for her new album. She speaks to us about learning a technical language to create a healing sound and of the timbres melodies and harmonies that became the result.

With a new album and UK tour coming soon, William Tyler met us to discuss all things Goes West, from the composing to the gorgeous old Martin box that stands at its centre.

Nighttime Birds pushes the concept of solo guitar music into a new realm. Even with just that in mind, this album is a triumph, but adding the fact that the music itself is so utterly beautiful, patient and often thrilling, further demonstrates the talent and unique artistic vision of Sarah Louise.