Jo Mango & Friends offer a lament that simultaneously stirs action and offers a balm for the trauma of separation with her latest release, System Hold.
Wherever you find yourself on the way “From A to B,” The Diamond Family Archive offers you a mind-bending soundtrack en route. The sonorous landscapes in the album are unmistakably British and peculiarly beautiful.
Rachel catches up with folk supergroup ‘I’m With Her’ in London and chats to Aoife O’Donovan about their upcoming album See You Around. Aoife reveals how it was working alongside Sara Watkins and Sarah Jarosz and what they all learned from the experience.
Truly, the most remarkable thing about I’m With Her is not the individual command, but the dedicated effort towards a cohesive artistic vision. The beauty of the album is the synchronicity, the careful listening on the part of each band member that creates a simply stunning album.
Ryan McKasson and Eric McDonald teamed up to release their first full-length album, Harbour. The narrative power of McDonald’s vocals joins the darker riffs of McKasson’s fiddle for an album with pluck, depth, and good reels aplenty.
The Kronos Quartet plays alongside four labelmates – Sam Amidon, Olivia Chaney, Rhiannon Giddens, and Natalie Merchant – to transport traditional folk songs to new arrangements.
With Oumou Sangaré’s mesmerising vocals, irresistible beats, and soulful social justice commentary, Mogoya is an album to continually return to for strength and celebration.
On Goths, the new instrumental background offers a way to hear the Mountain Goats afresh. It is an album about impermanence, the return to places, people, and songs, and knowing them again after the passing of time. Listen to the album in full.
If Lindsay Straw’s debut album, “sounds like no one but herself,” then her second album ‘The Fairest Flower of Womankind’ imparts that authenticity to the voices of women whose stories speak to a new generation.
