Albums

With The Pet Parade, Eric D. Johnson doesn’t rework the past like Bonny Light Horseman, rather he creates moments filled with the glory of a world where you have an opportunity to find your own place. An album that’s sure to find the kind of audience Eric D. Johnson has only imagined.

Featuring collaborations with Joey Burns and John Convertino from Calexico, Dean Owens first release in his Desert Trilogy EPs will certainly make the wait for the album even harder to bear.

With Origin Myths, there is no way Bobby Lee is from the U.K. It’s clear to me he’s from the American southwest resurrected as an Anasazi shaman…this is truly a homage to the red rock and the sand and the beating, hallucinatory sun.

Byla Rose’s debut Pacific Coast Folk EP ‘How Far’ is an intoxicating calling card drenched with thrilling potential for things yet to come.

Brighton-based The Knights Project has developed into formidable champions of lo-fi folk with a talented ear for lyrics and harmonies. Beautifully produced, their latest offering ‘Animals, Animals, Animals’ is a dreamy, fragile, and poetic way to spend some time with.

The Magpie Arc’s EP3 is a fitting way to cap a set of EPs whose very existence seems to celebrate the lasting power of musical collaboration at a time when it feels most at threat. It’s just as accomplished as its predecessors, and even more full of musical surprises.

Simon Flory’s early-country sounding ‘Haul These Blues Away’ may be an album steeped in hardships and hurt perhaps, but ultimately it’s a hymn to finding contentment and your own way in the world.

‘Creation Never Sleeps, Creation Never Dies’ is a crucially important record of Willie Dunn’s considered, accomplished and thoroughly striking song writing. His deep, rich, strong voice and his message remain eternal. One for every record collection. Seek it out.

Lael Neale’s ‘Acquainted with Night’ is steeped in Los Angeles nostalgia, sparse arrangements make for a smooth, unencumbered, effortless listen…beneath which there is an underlying tension that is strangely comforting.

The latest album by Jon Boden marks an elegant, profound, and thoroughly rewarding conclusion to a remarkably prescient series of albums. Last Mile Home is a genuinely heartfelt and beautifully structured listen. An exquisitely moving conclusion to Jon’s trilogy. This one will stay with you.

Those Shocking Shaking Days. Indonesian Hard, Psychedelic, Progressive Rock And Funk: 1970 – 1978 is an extraordinarily excellent re-released compilation that, musically, succeeds admirably in capturing the essence and magic of the time.

If you want to hear a fine example of the harp in the contemporary folk music of Ireland, then listen to Ocean of Stars, the new EP by Brídín who comes from a long line of musicians stretching back four generations.