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Simon Holland

Sometimes the simplest ideas are the best – Michael Feuerstack’s video for Clackity Clack captures a sense of anticipation, frustration and repetition, with just one shot.

In part two of our exclusive interview Adrian, Becky and Rachel talk about the sourcing writing and arranging and recording of Mount The Air.

Exclusive – Lau’s new album The Bell That Never Rang released 4/5/2015 and interview with Aidan, Kris and Martin and the albums producer Joan As Policewoman.

In the first part of our exclusive interview with The Unthanks they talk about their singing weekends and a vinyl playback of Mount The Air sees Adrian puncturing a few misconceptions.

Bully’s Acre are Robbie Harris (bodhrán), Peter Browne (accordion) and flamenco Guitarist Lucas Gonzales. Here they give FRUK exclusive insight into their unique sound.

With ‘Love And Logic’ suggesting a band really hitting its stride we catch up with Charlottesville band Sons Of Bill in a Bermondsey pub as they prepare for their UK tour leg.

In Part 2 of our exclusive interview, Joe Topping talks about the making of The Vagrant Kings album, The Rainbow Chasers, Home Service and getting started in music and more.

It’s taken two years of patient work but Streets Of Laredo finally have the debut album that they always intended in the twisty, psychedelic, country-folk rumble of Volume I & II.

In part 1 of our exclusive interview with Joe Topping he talks about spending time in America, his epic charity walk and the lasting effect it’s all had on his music.

Stepping into the spotlight, Martin Callingham called on his friends from the Bristol scene to help create the beautifully realised statement album Tonight, We All Swim Free.

A good looking CD, Dan Webster’s The Tin Man also sounds fabulous as his newly learnt production skills make the most of some great playing and his literate songcraft and superb voice.

Working on a grand scale with incredible musical skill Treacherous Orchestra’s second album Grind is a masterpiece of symphonic invention and seat-of-the-pants virtuosity.

As a music-obsessed teenager in southern France, Franz Robert Wild gradually learned to turn his passion into his own songs and The French House proves the merit of living your dream.

Two years in the making and recorded in their own new studio set up, Mount The Air encapsulates all of the contradictions that make The Unthanks so beautifully thrilling.

Calling on all of their considerable musical skills Dallahan have made the excellent When The Day Is On The Turn, here they give FRUK unique insight into their mixed heritage and mainly Irish musical roots.

Enjoying the recognition of her peers Blackbirds proves Gretchen Peters is ready to take her place amongst the very best of America’s singer songwriters as she shines her light into life’s shadows.

Drawing on the rich culture of America’s South, the Sons Of Bill transform the often-conflicting strand of Love And Logic into a seamless thread of sonic magic.

On the eve of the launch of his first ever solo album FRUK catches up with Ian Carr to talk about the making of the highly original Who He? and his band The Various Artists.

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