Albums

Lisa Knapp has unveiled her new video for Shipping Song which features on her new album Hidden Seam. Watch it here and read what she told FRUK about the song.

Jason Isbell’s latest appearance at The Garage in London is a sell out and touring with his wife Amanda Shires, the couple have the audience in raptures.

Benjamin William Pike is both an outstanding guitarist and songwriter. He talks to FRUK exclusively about his Mattie Foulds’ produced debut CD, Being & Nothingness.

Exclusive interview with Tim Crabtree as the official UK and European release of the album from Paper Beat Scissors (Album of the Month) sees him returning to these shores to tour and record a BBC session.

From the Swiss Italian come the Lonesome Southern Comfort Company, the vision of John Robianni and crew offering a brooding, intense take on the classic Americana sound.

Wintersmith is a collaboration between Steeleye Span and Terry Pratchett, a concept album based on the Tiffany Aching series in which tales of ancient rituals and secret folk dances lie within!

Brebach’s latest album Ùrlar brings together varied aspects of the Scots tradition with contemporary compositions, executed by five musicians at the top of their game, both individually and collectively.

Julia Holter demonstrates at The cube in Bristol that she knows how to keep the creative spark going once she has captured it…it is also probably the last time she will play a venue this small.

Orla Wren’s individual pieces are each like a single exhalation drawn out and slowed so that every particle of air, every bit of woodland mist, every icy molecule of breath is discernible.

‘Get There’ is Juliana Hatfield and Matthew Caws first full-length album collaboration under the rather mysterious name of Minor Alps. Read our review and get a taster.

“What makes this album unique and worthy, though, is this: the simplicity of popular musical forms has been shone through a prism in Teitur’s mind, and he’s singing the rainbow that emerges.”

Simon was so taken by Eddi Readers fantastic performance at Union Chapel last night that the urge to get this review up took precedent and the midnight oil was truly burning.