Albums

Allysen Callery returns with her new album ‘The Song the Songbird Sings’ for which we also have an exclusive album stream. Her reputation is sure to grow with this release which calls to mind the late 60’s/70’s progressive folk.

An album that provides all the Jayhawks elements that keep the fans hoping for another album, yet still managing to strike forth into new territory. It isn’t simply good to see them back – it’s better than ever to see them back.

A record on which the modern and the classical collide and whose restful exterior conceals a heart of dark, beautiful energy. William Blake would surely have approved.

One of the most rewarding Canadian roots releases of 2016 so far…from a base of indie rock with folk-rock, country, blues and even gospel thrown in the pot Roberts Hall have produced a cohesive full-length debut that’s a compelling listen.

Try to give the music a name if you will; acoustic-roots, folk-pop – labels don’t really matter and would certainly be difficult to apply. Serenity Sessions is, above everything else, great fun to listen to.

David Francey is one of those rare artists, of any genre, whose writing and performance skills are of such a consistently high standard that he never drops the ball. This fact is once again emphatically borne out with the release of his 11th album, Empty Train.

An exhaustively beautiful paean to place and time. We should perhaps listen to it in the same way that Moult conceived and recorded it: in stillness and solitude, with our minds at sea.

A Year In The Country have done an excellent job of rounding up many of hauntology’s leading lights and, despite the wide range of sounds represented, The Quietened Village sounds impressively coherent. If this the sound of the new epoch then we may not be condemned after all.

In Under The Cover Of Lightness Fraser Anderson takes us from warm summer love to cold, bleak loneliness. With Allen Ginsberg on one shoulder and John Martyn on the other, he shares hope and despondency in equal measure. And he makes us long to savour every drop.

Ichi is a welcome addition to the world of experimental music with a combination of childlike wonder, a wacky sense of humour and seemingly boundless creativity.

Sam Beam’s collaboration with Jesca Hoop is easily his best work in a while, and, on top of being a fine album, keeping his company will hopefully create a wider awareness of her charms too.

Cardboard Fox reveal themselves as more than the sum of their parts…top notch musicianship and singing coupled with songwriting excellence make Out of Mind a highly impressive debut.