Albums

Having spent a couple of life changing years on the road in America, Joe Topping has assembled the extremely talented Vagrant Kings to deliver a great new set of songs.

Sussex based Porchlight Smoker release their Water Into Sand late January – an authentic Americana album that sits neatly in your collection even whilst looking to wider horizons.

On Night Touches Day each of Gerda’s songs stands proudly on its own merits and each contributes to the album’s irresistible eclecticism. She charms and delights throughout this debut.

Read our live review of Apple Of My Eye at Tooting Folk Club, a truly special evening plus watch the video premiere of ‘Durdham Down’ performed live at Union Chapel.

Light in the Attic release their most significant and important album to date. 15 years in the making it’s a beautiful musical revelation that will stun many listeners.

Taking Irish folk tunes and flamenco’s fire as their starting points Bully’s Acre combine three exceptional musical talents and the spectacular debut CD, The Twelve Pins, is the result.

With their diverse backgrounds but shared grounding on the Edinburgh session circuit, Dallahan have set off a fanfare of acclaim. When The Day Is On The Turn meets the hype head on and smashes it!

Finland’s handpan player Kumea Sound is about to release his second album, “one of the most radically different yet accessible albums I’ve heard in a long time”.

Kenneth J Nash has certainly known some hard times and The Fall Of Eden is a title laden with significance. Summoning happier memories this record is a cathartic and road map to a new dawn.

Wookalilly, a four-piece band from Belfast release their debut album ‘All the Waiting While’, an Old World take on Bluegrass from a group unafraid to experiment.

The Morning Tree are three musicians who combine a genuine love of traditional material with the skill and imagination to imbue it with freshness and vitality. A very fine debut album.

Goodnight Lenin release their much anticipated full length debut album ‘In the Fullness of Time’. They don’t disappoint as Mike selects it as one of his albums of the year.