Albums

The River is a delightful and long-anticipated solo debut by Hamish Napier. One that paints portraits of the River Spey’s endless moods and mysteries. Not only that, he paints those portraits with such care and depth of emotion it’s impossible to avoid the irresistible pull of the current.

Fuel is a thoroughly delightful album, and a perfect example of patient and careful growth resulting in a blossoming of creativity. The pace and vitality engage the senses, the vocal performances are captivating and those arrangements, with their wide range of influences, are delightfully detailed but never overdone.

Written in Rouen and recorded in Minneapolis, Rachel tells us that the songs on her EP are a key; a direction; a red-blooded essential for living – be it bravery, belief in one’s path or the bonds of family and blood.

The highly revered alt-country Portland outfit ‘Richmond Fontaine’ is back with more hard luck stories – it will, however, be their swansong providing ‘an end piece for all the characters who inhabited the world of Richmond Fontaine over the years.’

The Silent Majority is an album which firmly establishes the reputations of Greg Russell and Ciaran Algar as one of the best duos on the British folk circuit today and if there’s any justice in this world, it will sell by the wagonload to existing fans and newcomers alike.

Questio Io…where to start? In Glasgow would be best probably, among the thriving live folk and jazz clubs the city, its inhabitants and its visitors foster. Scottish Folk / Jazz fusion – a beguiling album!

Jeffrey Lewis’ ‘Manhattan’ is one of his best, and confirms its author as one of the most intelligent, funny and interesting American songwriters in any genre.

Mount Moriah’s third full-length album ‘How to Dance’ takes further steps down the Alt Country road, but with a new found confidence and direction. You don’t need to know the steps to these dances of the soul, just let the music guide your heart.

The Big Eyes Family Players have an uncanny ability to exist outside of the boundaries of musical eras, one that makes their blueprint such a sonically successful one. OH! finds them at the very top of their game and is perhaps their finest album to date.

The Black Feathers return with their much anticipated full length debut Soaked To The Bone. This is an album to drench yourself in, long may they pour down like silver.

Paper Beat Scissors has just recorded a great session for Bob Harris’ Under The Apple Tree sessions. Watch the first song from that performance called ‘Shapes’. He is currently on tour in the UK supporting the release of his new album ‘Go On’, one of our Featured Albums of the Month.

Having already released one 10-year reunion album with Freakwater, Bloodshot Records go for the double with the first studio recordings by the Waco Brothers since 2005.