The subtle shading and above all the beautiful melodic flow of Maple Bee’s ‘These Four Worlds’ keeps you on tenterhooks throughout. There’s a sense of comfort too in the warmth and empathy that you’ll find.
Perhaps the most immediately striking aspect of Anne Marie Almedal’s Memory Lane is the sheer gorgeousness of it – it’s music to melt even the most glaciated heart.
Dead can dance, or they would if they could. You wonder whether Lau have the power to raise the ghosts of the Union Chapel in an exultant, sold out return to the north London venue.
The First single release from Emily Barker’s forthcoming Dear River album is the wonderful title track. Like the best of Emily’s songs it has an immediate familiarity, yet is uniquely hers.
The erstwhile Wailin’ Jenny and Juno Award winning songwriter Cara Luft is back with her best album yet. Darlingford is a powerful, personal statement and a triumph built on tragedy.
Simon Holland catches Amy Duncan’s London Album Launch, a great performance that leaves an enduring memory. Her songs possess an ethereal quality, each a vivid herald of a quietly compelling songwriter and a special night.
Track Number 7 from Chris Woods latest album ‘None the Wiser’ is ‘Tally of Salt’ and the first of two collaborations on this CD with the professional story teller Hugh Lupton. Listen to it here.
Simon catches Bella Hardy at The Slaughtered Lamb for her battleplan album launch. With her full band The Midnight Watch also present it turns out to be a spectacular evening and a great performance.
Track Number six from Chris Woods latest album ‘None the Wiser’ is ‘Thou Shalt’. Chris is pulling no punches at all here with the album’s main sermon, dressed as it is in the biblical terminology of “thou shalt not” and “thou shalt”.
Something we are very excited about is the forthcoming release of the fourth studio album, Dear River, from Emily Barker And The Red Clay Halo, officially announced today and due on July 8th on Linn Records.
Paper Aeroplanes latest release Little Letters is our latest ‘Album of the Month’, another exemplary addition to their catalogue, a truly beautiful album of perfect pop vignettes – affirmation if it is needed of the mounting acclaim that surrounds them.
Steve Martin & Edie Brickell’s latest release ‘Love Has Come For You’ is a gem! No matter how casually the initiation both Edie and Steve rightly recognise that they have created something special.
If there is something ineffable about the pleasure of Megan Wyler’s album ‘Through the Noise’, it comes from the shifting focus of fine details…a gentle breeze of ideas, a silken shawl of a voice and the luxury of time stood still as the mind gently ripples with possibilities.
We catch a great live performance by Katy Carr at The Lexington who takes to the stage in a vibrant, vivid red dress and matching pillbox hat to put on a great performance supported by her trusty Aviators!
Bella Hardy’s new studio album battleplan is released today. You can stream the whole album here courtesy of Deezer, don’t miss the official launch gig for the album at the Slaughtered Lamb in London on Wednesday May 1st.
We head off-piste with London’s Green Note Café for a spectacular night billed as a Songwriters circle featuring Nels Andrews, Peter Mulvey, Allison Russell…as well as Brandon Seabrook and J.T. Nero. It was a truly magical night! Read our live review.
Track Number four from Chris Woods latest album ‘None the Wiser’ is ‘A Whole Life Lived’ another of Chris’ fables that will speak very well for itself. It seems that the wisdom of age is that wisdom is still to be had. Listen to it now.
