Albums

The subtle shading and above all the beautiful melodic flow of Maple Bee’s ‘These Four Worlds’ keeps you on tenterhooks throughout. There’s a sense of comfort too in the warmth and empathy that you’ll find.

Cinéma El Mundo is the latest release from the band Lo’jo a band conceived on the margins of Angers, in the west of France. This album is revolutionary in it’s scope…feast your ears!

The Damien O’Kane Trio put on a great performance at The Met, Bury. Damien was accompanied by John-Joe Kelly on bodhran and Ed Boyd on guitar.

The Weighing of the Heart is Colleen’s first studio album in six years which has arrived with sudden, gentle surprise, like a migrating bird that has appeared too early. It is a gleaming treasure.

Perhaps the most immediately striking aspect of Anne Marie Almedal’s Memory Lane is the sheer gorgeousness of it – it’s music to melt even the most glaciated heart.

British artist Jamie N Commons is back with a new EP ‘Rumble and Sway’ with a catchy title track and accompanying video.

We catch KAN performing at Manchester’s historic Band on the Wall where the rarely seen quartet put on a great performance with their unique blend of folk, jazz and Mayan culture!

Friday evening and Shooglenifty breeze into a chilly, and eventually soggy, small Hampshire town for a gig at the Ashcroft Arts Centre, but it’s not long before things warm up!

Watch Sam Amidon’s official video for ‘As I Roved out’ which features on his new album ‘Bright Sunny South’ which is one of our Albums of the Month. The video is like a tale in itself…

A Hawk and a Hacksaw do not disappoint on their latest release You Have Already Gone To The Other World. The opener is like a portal and once you cross it you’re in another world. A magical album!

‘I Am’ is the penultimate from Chris Woods latest album ‘None the Wiser’, Written by John Clare as he lived out his days in Northampton asylum. Listen here.

Dead can dance, or they would if they could. You wonder whether Lau have the power to raise the ghosts of the Union Chapel in an exultant, sold out return to the north London venue.