Albums

Honest, in-depth reviews of experimental, folk, ambient and avant-garde albums redefining what music can be. Independent coverage from KLOF Magazine since 2004.

by Neil McFadyen

Two years in the making, The John Langan Band’s “Bones Of Contention” boasts voluptuously proportioned tracks, a veritable United Nations of musical influences and an infectious disregard for musical convention.

by Simon Holland

Simon Holland catches Amy Duncan’s London Album Launch, a great performance that leaves an enduring memory. Her songs possess an ethereal quality, each a vivid herald of a quietly compelling songwriter and a special night.

by Simon Holland

Track Number 7 from Chris Woods latest album ‘None the Wiser’ is ‘Tally of Salt’ and the first of two collaborations on this CD with the professional story teller Hugh Lupton. Listen to it here.

by Anne Malewski

Turner Cody’s latest album “Last of the Big Time Spenders” illuminates contemporary struggles like a zoetrope nightlight and cool as a cucumber.

by KLOF

Mary Hampton has released a new song called ‘Gold Hat’, on Bandcamp; it is a setting of the epigraph from the opening of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel ‘The Great Gatsby’. Listen to it now, she performs it with her band Cotillion

by Johnny Whalley

Part Two of our review of the Hothouse Festival held at Halsway Manor, Somerset with video sessions from Songs from the Shed and recordings from Folk Radio UK of some of the live performances on the day.

by Johnny Whalley

Part One of our review of the Hothouse Festival held at Halsway Manor, Somerset with video sessions from Songs from the Shed and recordings from Folk Radio UK of some of the live performances on the day.

by Simon Holland

Simon catches Bella Hardy at The Slaughtered Lamb for her battleplan album launch. With her full band The Midnight Watch also present it turns out to be a spectacular evening and a great performance.

by Simon Holland

Track Number six from Chris Woods latest album ‘None the Wiser’ is ‘Thou Shalt’. Chris is pulling no punches at all here with the album’s main sermon, dressed as it is in the biblical terminology of “thou shalt not” and “thou shalt”.

by Simon Holland

Paper Aeroplanes latest release Little Letters is our latest ‘Album of the Month’, another exemplary addition to their catalogue, a truly beautiful album of perfect pop vignettes – affirmation if it is needed of the mounting acclaim that surrounds them.

by Johnny Whalley

It is a pleasure to introduce this debut album from Barrule featuring Jamie Smith, Adam Rhodes and Tomas Callister a Manx Trad Power Trio! They put on a great live set and this album does them great justice. One you will not want to miss. Plus free single!

by Neil McFadyen

With Producer / Engineer Calum Malcolm at the helm Amy Duncan’s ‘Cycles of Life’ is her most polished album to date which highlights her emotive and deeply personal songwriting, a progressively positive, and ultimately hope-filled, experience.

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