Mike Davies

On Burn The Plan, the Good lovelies fourth studio album, they’ve broadened their horizons to take in a touch of electronics. Whilst this could have seen everything go up in smoke it instead looks like a definite blaze of glory.

The Bournemouth EP is the latest offering from the fresh-faced, mountain-air voiced Norwich singer-songwriter Jess Morgan, one which proves yet again what a dazzling talent she is.

For her latest project Juno winner Keri Latimer has teamed up with husband Devin Latimer as Leaf Rapids, named after a town in north west Manitoba. Lucky Star is a countrified flavoured album with a pleasing breadth of variety to please the ear.

The songs here may have been gathering dust, but, brought out into the light, they have produced a hugely listenable and enjoyable album, a  perfect soulful accompaniment to summer and further evidence of Robins’ fabulous voice and huge talent.

In lesser hands (and voice) there is a danger that such content matter and music could come across as fey or twee, but Kate Doubleday is as rooted in the earth  as she is in the spiritual and the result is an album to make your heart and soul flutter.

What Kind of Love is the latest offering from Danny Wilson and the boys which finds them in a brassy, Caledonian soul mood that will leave you with a warm glow on the inside.

Most of ‘Sundown Over Ghost Town’ was inspired by and written in Idaho City, a mostly abandoned former mining centre to the north of Eilen Jewell’s hometown of Boise, where she now lives, and provides the album’s reflective tone and lyrical threads. It is a more reflective, musically subdued work than some of her past outings, but it may well be her best yet.

Building a solid following and already a significant presence on the festival scene, in an age of  shooting stars that flare briefly and pass in the night, Thomas is an artist of solid, enduring substance and a real keeper.

Kent Folk-rock sextet Galley Beggar’s latest album does a damn good job of consolidating the tradition that began with Fairport Convention back in the late 60s.

TRADarrr is a folk rock big-band project whose core members are Gregg Cave, Mark Stevens, Marion Fleetwood, Guy Fletcher and PJ Wright with some notable guests as well. An album that will nestle very comfortably in the same CD wallet as such 70s folk rock classics as Please To See The King and Liege and Lief.

Dedicated to the late founding member and family patriarch, Lenny Barker, The Barker Band’s sixth album The Land We Hold Dear is already set be on the ‘Best of’ lists of 2015. It should be on yours.

Named after his late grandfather, who played in a marching band and on whose guitar he learned to play, Marching Donald is one Ryan Davies and this is his second self-released album. One that demonstrates an increasing mastery of his craft and a greater confidence in his own abilities. One to watch for.