Albums

Lead singer of Crooked Still Aoife O’Donovan releases her debut solo album Fossils this week. With Tucker Martine on production her dreamy vocals get the perfect treatment.

Hiss Golden Messenger’s latest release HAW is a beautifully crafted record that shows, every note and lyric feels organic and trusted.

Sophie Jamieson releases her debut EP ‘Where’ this week on Folkroom Records, her raw and intimate songs will stay with you long after they’re over. Stunningly Beautiful!

Beneath the surface of Dylan Fowler’s harp-like approach to guitar on ‘A Passionate Landscape’, there’s a highly complex mix of influences that span time, traditions and the globe. A wonderful & remarkable album.

Three years have passed since Ruth Theodore’s second album, with Dear Lamp Love Moth she has followed it up with a set of songs that is even more ambitious.

A kitchen, close friends, trial, error and patience. That’s Matthew Fowler’s recipe for his debut album. It worked a treat.

In what is already shaping up to be quite a year for English folk music, the events of the 20th of June at Cecil Sharp House are very likely to earn a noteworthy place in the annals of folk music history.

In advance of her Artist Of The Month Billing for July we bring you exclusive insight into the superb deluxe double CD version of Emily Barker And The Red Clay Halo’s Dear River.

Matt Berry’s Kill The Wolf, a follow-up to witchhazel plays out like a pagan soundtrack steeped in full-blooded English psych-folk centred around the summer solstice.

With a London show in July Maple Bee talks exclusively to Folk Radio UK about bringing together These Four Worlds, her restless creative streak and life as a music therapist.

Heather Maloney’s self-titled release on Signature Sounds is a defining milestone in her musical career, not so much ambitious as adventurous and one which will reap many rewards.

The Rambling Irishman Kevin Doherty takes time out from Four Men And A Dog to deliver ‘Seeing Things’, a literate solo work aimed at both head and heart and distinguished by fine string arrangements.