Albums

Corb Lund returns with his highly-anticipated album, Things That Can’t Be Undone, his first new studio album in three years which finds him pushing out into new musical territory.

Real World Records release ‘Fatteliku Live’, Youssou N’Dour and his band’s live set supporting Peter Gabriel on the landmark ‘So’ tour, recorded in Athens in 1987 and making its long-awaited debut as an audio release.

We rejoin Jonathan Day on the road for a series of guest posts written during his Atlantic Drifter launch tour. He heads over the sea in a force 6 to Rhum for the perhaps the most essential launch gig of the tour.

The Ballads of Child Migration is an album of brand new songs from some of Britain’s finest folk musicians inspired by these heart breaking true stories and coincides with a new exhibition taking place at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum of Childhood.

I’m Walkin’ Here is the latest gem from Rab Noakes, featuring new songs, lovingly described as 21st Century skiffle, as well as songs he’s collected for interpretation. Rab is joined by a a great lineup including a stellar array of singers with Roddy Hart, Emma Pollock, Jimmie Macgregor, Barbara Dickson and more.

Michael Chapman’s latest release ‘Fish’ is a beautifully constructed album. It’s a delightfully un-sanitised recording of a master guitarist completely at ease with his playing.

Vancouver-based band The Sumner Brothers return with their fifth album, The Hell In Your Mind. A musically and lyrically dark and dense affair that, if not quite in the 16 Horsepower league of intensity, is still a raw and exposed nerve.

Brown has been quoted as saying he’s searching for a new way to say the same things. Whether he’s succeeding or not is somewhat irrelevant given the quality and beauty of the songs on Slow Light, which must be considered a candidate for those end-of-year ‘best of’ lists. Make sure it’s on yours.

Like panning for gold, Stevenson and his producer Mike Scott (Waterboys) have pored over the contents of Freddie’s heart, washed away any excess and conjured small but perfectly formed gems from the stuff of life. And how they sparkle.

Barely, as the title suggests, is a stripped down affair with guest including Irish folk singer Mary Dillon. As well as suggesting something that’s hardly there, barely also means without disguise or concealment. As such, this is Barely Brilliant.

We rejoin Jonathan Day on the road for a series of guest posts written during his Atlantic Drifter launch tour as he arrives in Shanghai before heading to Beijng for the final part of his China tour.

There has never been a force of nature quite like the exhilarating juggernaut of bombastic, swaggering, buffed, multi-coloured big band folk that is Bellowhead and it is unlikely there ever will be again. Pandemonium presents highlights from Bellowhead’s incredible career.