Albums

David Eugene Edwards gazes skywards in his latest offering. Ethereal and multi-layered ‘Star Treatment’ is a blood rush of  baptismal fury that touches on primal, apocalyptic feelings and leaves you both drained and exhilarated.

Solarference have intuitively constructed a thorny and challenging set of pieces that amply repays any measure of the effort expended in getting to know their music. The ghosts of the past continue to inform the present, which in turn haunts the future.

One of the highlights of this year’s FolkEast Festival was Ushers Island whose lineup reads like an Irish traditional music hall of fame: Andy Irvine, Dónal Lunny, Paddy Glackin, Michael McGoldrick and John Doyle.

Brimming with delicate individuality Lucy Roleff’s songs are intimate and carefully considered jewel-like creations that are pitched somewhere between hauntingly intense and beautifully serene.

With their new album ‘Before the Sun’ due out this month, Rob catches up with Hannah Sanders and Ben Savage to talk about folk music, lunar cycles and cosmic patterns. Make sure you catch them on their album tour.

Nine Pin is a stunning album of understated clarity and insight, effortlessly bridging the past and the present to create a blueprint for the future. Included in our review is the video premiere for Harlem’s Little Blackbird.

Astronaut Meets Appleman, the latest album from Fife-based King Creosote, An album about renewal and facing up to failure and disappointment before rediscovering a positive perspective on life.

Irish alt-folk band The Driftwood Manor return with yet another compelling album. Of the Moon is engaging and beautifully crafted. A unique album that we encourage you all to seek out.

Jon Boden is our Artist of the Month for September. The 10th Anniversary Edition of Painted Lady is released on 30th September by Navigator Records, read our album review and watch the new animated video for his latest single ‘All Hang Down’.

Grain by Grain is a sweet, heartwarming record, made with love and passion, that should introduce Mark Mandeville and Raianne Richards to the wider audience they clearly deserve.

A confident and impressive sophomore album that not only fully justifies past predictions regarding Hannah Sanders trajectory in the current folk field but also marks the arrival of a significant new duo force with Ben Savage.

Buck Curran has been a leading light in the psych-folk scene for so long now that it might come as a surprise to learn that this is his first solo album. With Immortal Light he has successfully tapped into nature’s beauty and created a slice of alt-folk that is as engrossing as anything you’re likely to hear.