Albums

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.

Cove Hithe’s debut offering occupies a beguiling hinterland: the unclaimed areas between sea and land, modernity and ancientness, waking and dreaming.

Read our live review of the highly anticipated Thompson Family gigs at London’s Kings Place. Plus, we have an exclusive chat with Teddy Thompson before he takes to the stage.

40 Watts is the side project of Katie West, one half of Truckstop Honeymoon. On the evidence of ‘After The Show’ she could light up an entire city.

With founding members David Lowery and Johnny Hickman at the helm Cracker release a double-album that captures two diverse musical and political sides of California.

Who He? is the first solo album from master guitarist Ian Carr, one that can join the inner sanctum of records whose unique sound sets them apart from the crowd.

Shift offers a rich and often heady brew of traditional and modern songs and sounds rooted in the musical traditions of the Borders between southern Scotland and northern England.