Mike Davies

Chimes at Midnight is the latest offering from Rainbow Chasers – formed by English folk scene stalwart Ashley Hutchings and featuring previously unreleased recordings.

The Other Country is the debut release from Esther Rose Parkes, all but four tracks are written in collaboration with her mother, the poet Linda Rose Parkes…a country worth exploring further.

A welcome return from Gina Villalobos with Sola, her first album in five years. Villalobos can deliver punch and caress with equal aplomb, but it’s the latter than dominates here.

Savannah Road is Brigitte DeMeyer’s 6th album and is the first she’s produced herself, 10 of the tracks co-penned by guest guitarist and harmony vocalist Will Kimbrough.

Boho Dancer reissue their debut album Gemini as a special edition. Mike explores the new offering which includes three new tracks from the Danish trio.

Dan Lyth’s album conjures what might result from a cross-fertilisation of Radiohead and The Fence Collective, an ambitious, intellectual, art-music project, but with a real beating heart at its core.

Newcastle-upon-Tyne’s Bridie Jackson and The Arbour return – drawing on English folk traditions and Eastern European colours their sophomore album ‘New Skin’ is stunning.

Harpeth Rising take their name from the fast flowing, powerful tributary of Tennessee’s Cumberland River. Like that, their latest album is in full flood.

Island Records resurrect their classic 60s pink label for The Rails, daughter and son-in-law of folk music legends Richard & Linda Thompson, footsteps they are highly likely to follow.

Unfussy and honest in their approach to the music, Tumbling Bones are not looking to reinvent Americana’s old time roots…only the very best do it with the same verve and passion as these boys.

Mike compares singer-songwriter Hollie Fullbrook’s sophomore album ‘Brightly Painted One ‘ to lying in an English meadow on a warm, summer day…what’s not to like?

For their eponymous new album the Smoke Fairies reinvent their sound in a goblinesque fusion of English folk and deep ellum blues embracing electronics and pop-influenced atmospherics.