Albums

Up The Cut is a beautiful album. A raw, but entirely seductive, performance. One for all lovers of traditional songs delivered with minimal frills. More please Jon!

Alors Quoi is an album that’s soaked in the otherworld as well as the subconscious one. Its themes revel in questions rather than answers. It’s mesmeric sound creeps into your psyche and nestles there; snug with its low-key groove. One that will linger.

On ‘In the Furrows of Common Place’, Jim Ghedi brings focus to unrest, land enclosure and austerity. It is a stunning and remarkable album with bags of passion, creativity and precision from the always fascinating Ghedi.

Including members of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra it’s a curious, but entirely engaging mix of musicians on Songs of the Sea, a moving, sincere album, and one that promises interesting things to come from Green.

TRADarrr are mining a rich seam of traditional songs in their search for material, but it is the flair and imagination going into the arrangements that set them apart as proven here.

With The Silver Sun, Eamon O’Leary has created an album that reminds of the things we may have forgotten over the past twelve months. He extends to us the “forgiveness of time.” In these days we need to hold on to that and to each other.

Kristin Davidson and Carolyn Phillips, who hail from Austin Texas, make a resilient combination – while their band name suggests a toughness to their music they also know tenderness.

Sweet As Honey is an album filled with themes of metaphorical journeys, the happiness of community and the soul-affirming warmth of the earth, it is a jubilant, inspiring, and genuine feel-good album.

Described as Finnish folk-bluegrass, Paula Wolksi’s “Lato” is a wonderful album, diverse and stirring, bound up in joy, love and first-class musicianship.

Featuring a wealth of special guests, Yvonne Lyon’s ‘Growing Wild’ encourages successive listens, unearthing a tranche of details laid around skillfully crafted songs.

This concluding edition of the Dark Britannica series celebrates the land, nature and seasonal cycles. A rich tapestry interweaving backgrounds and approaches. A crafted artefact in keeping with its almost pre-industrial contents, as if we are among ancestors.

Combining literary flavours with life experiences, stories from the road, personal observations, and contemplations of the world around him, Moranz’s excellent songs are the satisfying end result.