Albums

Songs for the Voiceless is both a beautifully realised piece of art and a timely lesson in history featuring Jon Boden, Bella Hardy, The Young’Uns and more.

Jamie Doe aka The Magic Lantern entertains the crowd at Camden’s Green Note, an unforgettable evening of great entertainment served with a side plate of humility.

For their second album, Seven Tides, Apple Of My Eye are off the charts with a superb collection of stories and songs, that add their own high water mark to this year’s musical output.

Paul heads to London’s 12 Bar Club for a Bucketfull of Brains showcase and is treated to great performances from Sugar Magnolia, Trent Miller and Pete Gow.

The latest offering from United Bible Studies comes via ‘A Year in the Country’. It’s an album that’s inseparable from its landscapes, full of natural grandeur and musical inventiveness.

Glasgow-based darling of the Scottish underground scene Jonnie Common is back with a new album that has great depth and plenty of surprises.

Jason Mcniff’s fifth studio album, God Knows Why We Dream, is a bounteous mix of the finest roots music has to offer, his strongest outing yet,

With music that ‘seeps beneath your guard until it feels like an old friend’ there’s plenty to love about Run Boy Run whose music is rooted in the traditional music of the Appalachian South.

This is another sterling example of Topic Records consistency – ‘this compilation is not only the icing on the cake, it’s also the sponge, the jam and the candles on the top’.

Whilst Varda remains as much an enigma as he did with his 1989 debut, preferring the music to provide his biography this is very much an album to cherish.

These tribute albums can often be a hit and miss affair but between the quality of the source material and the calibre of the interpreters, there’s no weak link in this chain.

Getting their timing spot on, The Once arrive in the UK on the European leg of their global tour supporting Passenger and also have wonderful Departures just released by Nettwerk Records.