Albums

Paul’s Sunday at Cambridge Folk Festival begins with the Archers blaring out of the tannoy before getting back to semi-normality – Interviews with The Young’uns & the wonderful Sarah Jarosz.

The widely-tipped Dublin alt-folk quartet The Young Folk release their debut album ‘The Little Battle’ in September, a release that may well find their backyard takes on global proportions.

Robert “Hacker” Jesset and Anne Gilpin of Morton Valence return with ‘Left’, a unique album melding genre-hopping soundscapes with Hacker’s imaginative storytelling.

Jordie Lane releases a five track EP to quench fans thirst. His soaring croon conjuring comparisons with M Ward as he again muses on love, mortality and change.

More than the sum of its parts, Vena Portae joins Emily Barker, Dom Coyote and Ruben Engzell for a wonderful album of superbly crafted songs, further enhanced by the bonus disc of remixes.

Paul continues his review of Cambridge Folk Festival taking in The Shires, The Full English, Seth Lakeman, Loudon Wainwright III and Rosanne Cash.

Luke Sital-Singh releases his long-awaited debut album ‘The Fire Inside’ – songs of joy and heartache, delivered in a dust-limned, cracked voice that often catches like a sob in the throat.

Oscillations is a solid debut album from London based Cosines, with moments of human kindness melting the sangfroid; it’s a promising start and one worth following the future of.

Paul got to go wild at Cambridge Folk Festival this year as our roving reporter, in part one of his review he gets into the spirit and catches a top performance from Megson and Moore Moss Rutter.

In the 2nd part of our exclusive interview John Fullbright gets into more personal territory, discussing his musical growth, inspirations, his love of music and the place he calls home.

FRUK looks behind the making of ‘Centenary: Words and Music of the Great War’ featuring both music and WWI poems read by actor Jim Carter that he and his wife Imelda Staunton.

With their 2nd album The Call Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar prove the merit of two consecutive Folk Awards. They give FRUK some exclusive insight into their inspirations and much more.