Albums

On his latest album ‘Atlantic’ County Antrim singer-songwriter Ben Glover once again raises the bar, not just for his own career, but for everyone in the Americana musical panorama.

Paul takes in the motley looking Deer Tick at the O2 Brooklyn Bowl who put on a remarkable night where they raise the roof with ‘riffs so crunchy you could add nuts and call them breakfast’.

Johnny shares his highlights from this year’s Wickham Festival including Afro Celt Sound System. Steve Earle, Dick Gaughan, Julie Fowlis, 3 Daft Monkeys and many more.

Outlines is the fourth album from Irish singer-songwriter Peter Doran, recorded on a small lake house …” – if these are just stories, they’re incredibly well delivered”.

With ‘The Buddhist’ Tacoma, Washington-based singer-songwriter Kye Alfred Hillig honors the personal nature of the songs and leaves the stories within them bare before the listener.

Celebrating 30 years, The Defiant finds The Men They Couldn’t Hang still have energy and commitment to burn with a roustabout record brimful of rallying cries and sing-along anthems.

Celebrating their tenth anniversary New York harmony trio Red Molly release ‘The Red Album’, the first to put the emphasis on their self-penned material.

After a busy five years of touring with Portland-based band Blind Pilot, Kati Claborn was sitting on a steadily growing pile of tunes…Hook and Anchor brings them to light.

Inspired by folklore, Rachel Newton’s brilliant new album, Changeling explores the border between the real and the fantastical as her imagination plays across the dividing line.

We catch James Yorkston’s Album launch for The Cellardyke Recording and Wassailing Society at the Old Queens Head with support from the wonderful Irish singer/songwriter Lisa O’Neill.

A vision of Louis Armstrong inspired the visionary new album from Dr. John Ske-Dat-De-Dat The Spirit Of Satch a record so pumped full of the Crescent City it’s bursting with musical ideas.

Annointed Queen is the result of a collaboration between ethereal London-based baroque folk quartet Firefay and 70s survivor Alison O’Donnell – a match made in psych-folk heaven.