Albums

Natalie Merchant’s new album is filled with exquisitely crafted original songs. The product of a mature, thoughtful songwriter who’s come a long way.

Paul heads to Servant Jazz Quarters for Vikesh Kapoor’s headline gig. “A voice that mixes sandpaper and molasses, gravel and grace…As first headline gigs go we, could not have asked for more.”

With his second album, House Of Jacks, Blair Dunlop builds on the considerable promise of his debut and subsequent Horizon Folk Award, creating a bold and big new sound in the process.

Cory Seznec’s latest offering ‘Beauty In The Dirt’ is the bastard offspring of a creole-swamp style that Alan Lomax would have loved, he seamlessly joins musical styles…excellent!

Boho Dancer reissue their debut album Gemini as a special edition. Mike explores the new offering which includes three new tracks from the Danish trio.

Brooke Sharkey releases ‘I Crossed The Line’ this month, an EP that has tiptoed into the heart of our reviewer Helen and taken up residence at the top of her perennial playlists.

Dan Lyth’s album conjures what might result from a cross-fertilisation of Radiohead and The Fence Collective, an ambitious, intellectual, art-music project, but with a real beating heart at its core.

Neil heads to the annual Distil showcase…an annual gathering of musical minds that takes the exuberant creativity of our most talented musicians and pushes it that little bit further.

Our Artist of the Month, the Moulettes, unveil their new video for ‘Lady Vengeance’ taken from their new album ‘Constellations’. Watch it here.

In 2010 Peter Thisell brought together a group of musicians to record an album in an abandoned school in southern Sweden… ‘I’ is an extraordinarily brilliant album.

Ninebarrow have carved a melodic map across the English landscape, offering up a collection of catchy songs honed and homed in landscapes from Dorset to the Lake District.

In 10 years of music making Megson have consistently wowed audiences with trademark harmonies and sublime song selections. In A Box is further proof of what they do best.