Albums

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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”.

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.

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!

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.