Mike Davies

Seven years on from her excellent debut, Anna Lynch returns with a five-track acoustic EP of heartbreak rural Americana. If you’ve not discovered her yet, then do yourself a favour and check this out.

Sunset Canyoneers doesn’t pretend to be anything more than unabashed retro nostalgia for the halcyon tambourine following, the hickory wind blowing days of American folk-rock and every child of the universe. And rather fine it is too.

Wednesday’s Child finds Hana in a more restrained and contemplative mood as she switches to harp for a ten-track conceptual narrative of atmospheric balladry that will also feature a standalone illustrated book. Intoxicatingly haunting.

It’s an old myth that there’s a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, but seek out Ian Roland and The Subtown Set’s ‘Double Rainbow’ and you’ll be well-rewarded.

Touching on both loneliness and the need for solitude, Cousins has reached within and emerged with an album that fully rewards on both a musical and emotional level. There’s no false bravado here.

A terrific follow-up to her 2014 sophomore album, Undercover finds Bronwynne Brent exploring broader influences resulting in a far jazzier sound. An irresistible album. Don’t miss her upcoming UK tour dates.

The sisters say the journey to making this album has been a transformative experience… In Roman mythology, the reign of Saturn was regarded as a Golden Age, With Saturn’s Return, the Secret Sisters have entered theirs.

“smouldering with an earthy sensuality compared to which, Peggy Lee sounds like a nun…” Tami Neilson said she wanted to make an album of popping firecrackers. Chickaboom! is a veritable Fourth of July display.

On his latest album, Robert Vincent sings “Nobody knows the ending”, but this outstanding album is a very good start on the path to finding the light at the end of the tunnel in which we seem to be lost.

On album closer ‘I Love You’ he says “you don’t need to pretend you’re anything more than you are” – a simple, open, intimate, honest and hugely listenable album, Sam Lewis sums up those sentiments up perfectly.

John Moreland’s ‘LP5’ is a terrific piece of work that is his most musically complex and lyrically personal album to date, it confirms his position as one of today’s great singer-songwriters.

Following an award-winning year as one half of The LYNNeS alongside fellow Canadian Lynn Miles, Lynne Hanson returns to her solo career path for her seventh album of variegated Americana. This album isn’t just words, it speaks from the heart and soul and it will touch yours.