Albums

Trent Miller is a persuasive storyteller who keeps his songs short and purposeful, allowing the music to to draw you in and the words to anchor you. Burnt Offerings promises much and delivers.

Different Every Time’ is a career spanning, double compilation album of Wyatt’s work. Curated by Wyatt, Domino and Marcus O’Dair, it acts as the perfect companion piece to O’Dair’s new biography of the same title and provides our Song of the Day.

English traditional folk music meets Tuvan roots in The Goshawk Project as Carole Pegg (Mr Fox) teams up with Tuvan throat-singer and musician Radik Tülüsh.

Heed the Thunder’s new album, ‘Cokaigne’ exemplifies the taut strangeness and the endless flow of musical ideas that can be found all over this varied and impressive little album.

On xoa, Anaïs Mitchell opts for a loosely autobiographical approach, largely driven by requests by her fans it offers a back to basics collection which hangs together surprisingly well.

For one week only we are previewing Boo Hewerdine’s new release ‘My Name in the Brackets‘. Plus Boo takes us track by track through the album released on 8th December.

Lorcán MacMathuna of Preab Meadar talks us through the dance element of their new album with a brief look at the history of Irish Literature.

Sylvie Simmons puts on a a top performance at London’s 12 Bar Club with support from Raevennan Husbandes. Songs for loners, lovers and losers…a memorable evening.

A feathery air may inform the album’s ambience, but behind it lie deceptively and disarmingly moving literate songs that catch you unawares with the acumen of their images and emotions.

The Holy Court of Baltimore is the fourth self-released album by Chris Kiehne, an album on which his lyrics draw extensively on Shakespeare’s Ophelia.

There’s a whole battalion of bands out there making this sort of retro rock, but the Oregon based quartet The Parson Red Heads are carrying the flag not following it.

With Teddy Thompson as the guiding hand and three generations of the Thompson clan fulfilling their writing brief, the resultant Family album matches the ambition of bringing this extraordinary musical dynasty together.