Mike Davies

VanWyck’s ‘God is in the Detour’ is one of those consistently rewarding albums that make your musical detour into perhaps new and previously unknown territory well worthwhile.

Their finest hour yet, a musically gentle listening experience, suffused with both love and sadness and, as the title implies, a reminder that while we may be apart our voices are not silenced.

The first all-new material from Bruce Springsteen and his legendary E Street Band since 2012, this ‘Letter To You’ comes with a first-class stamp.

This Frontier Needs Heroes latest offering is a fairly low key, musically introspective affair, but allow it to seep into your soul and you’ll find that the flow will carry you along.

Country Darkness Vol 3 is the last of the EP trilogy from My Darling Clementine with four more covers of Elvis Costello’s…if Costello has heard them he should be duly humbled.

Otis Gibbs has released some stunning albums over the past 18 years, but this may well be his finest hour, this Hoosier deserves to be a national treasure.

If you didn’t have the good fortune to indulge yourself in their debut album, Lunatraktor’s Bonefire EP affords an opportunity to sample their unique take on traditional folk – invigorating stuff.

Michael J. Sheehy returns with his first solo album in ten years – Distance may indeed bring beauty into perspective, but I highly recommend you get up and close and intimate with this.

While The Marriage are a musical rather than a connubial relationship featuring Kirsten Adamson and Dave Burn, this debut sounds like the dawning of a very bright future.

Looking Up is Mike McClure’s tenth solo album and one that arrives after five years during which there have been dramatic changes in his life.

Our Man in the Field’s debut album offers a rather fine set of shuffling, pedal steel coloured Americana pop, occasionally sung in a dreamy falsetto that echoes the mood of the music. Definitely one you should seek out.

While this might not prove the work for which Judy Dyble is most remembered, it’s a bittersweet understatement to mark what was and is her finest hour.