Albums

Victory & Ruins is one hell of a fine album that crackles with instant hooks and melodies, has an effervescence of choruses and boasts a fistful of damn fine blue collar songs into the bargain.

Acoustic Classics is what it claims: a collection 14 tracks culled from Richard Thompson’s 40 plus year career. These all new acoustic recordings will keep even the devoted fans happy.

Terms Of My Surrender conjures the authenticity of Robert Johnson and Howlin’ Wolf and you can almost feel their ghosts looking on from the mixing deck.

Gramercy Arms are back with The Seasons Of Love, a stunning collection of Dave Derby power poppers featuring an impressive guest list including Lloyd Cole, Joan Wasser and Tanya Donnelly.

Using their Irish American roots The Greenbeans create a sound that is immediately engaging with lyrics and instrumentation that repay closer listening.

They fuse ancient and modern, Welsh and English traditions into a seamless and coherent, contemporary whole without compromise. Fernhill are one of the finest folk groups we are blessed to be able to witness today.

Cannell’s weird and often eerie choice of instruments, her attention to historical and musical detail, and in particular her improvisational prowess give this remarkable and at times elemental album a personality of its own.

In 1970, Pye released Trout Steel. The third album from Mike Cooper who rejected pigeonholes for a more enlightened view of the musical community when. A Classic get reissued.

Till Tomorrow is a gem – forty years in the making and the perfect way for Dougie MacLean and his substantial audience to celebrate a career that has given so much to tradition-based music in Scotland.

Holly Williams ‘The Highway’ gets a UK release as she embarks on her UK Tour. Her most defining album to date which packs a huge emotional punch.

Ten Years was originally only available at Emily Smith’s live shows, but this excellent collection now has a full release (Out Today) and offers a great insight into her outstanding decade in folk.

Possessed of arguably the clearest, loveliest and most soothing male vocal in the world of British folk music Johnny Coppin returns with his first solo collection in nine years.