Albums

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.

Read our review of Seasick Steve’s latest offering ‘Hubcap Music’ which features Jack White, John Paul Jones and Luther Dickenson. We have a track by track exclusive from Deezer and his latest performance on ‘Later with Jools’.

Steve Martin & Edie Brickell’s latest release ‘Love Has Come For You’ is a gem! No matter how casually the initiation both Edie and Steve rightly recognise that they have created something special.

If there is something ineffable about the pleasure of Megan Wyler’s album ‘Through the Noise’, it comes from the shifting focus of fine details…a gentle breeze of ideas, a silken shawl of a voice and the luxury of time stood still as the mind gently ripples with possibilities.

The pastoral sounds of Rob St. John return tomorrow on MayDay with a stunning special release on Song, by Toad Records which I have to admit I have been bowled over by. Charcoal Black and the Bonny Grey / Shallow Brown is simply stunning and beautiful!

Folk Radio UK catches Show of Hands at the sold-out Waterside Theatre in Sale, Greater Manchester. Miranda Sykes and Rex Preston opened the evening of entertainment whilst Show of Hands delighted many with a delve into their back catalogue.

The latest offering from Bait, Gastr Del Sol and Bastro guitarist David Grubbs is ‘The Plain Where the Palace Stood’. An album that is equal parts brainy, bonkers and bewildering, but never anything less than rewarding.

We catch a great live performance by Katy Carr at The Lexington who takes to the stage in a vibrant, vivid red dress and matching pillbox hat to put on a great performance supported by her trusty Aviators!

Sophie Hunger’s latest release ‘The Danger of Light’ may not finally cast some light on her real musical persona but it does show Hunger having fun with what seems to have become a career-long quest. Stream the album in full & watch her latest video.

The Little Carpenter is almost the fulcrum of Chris Wood’s latest album as we reach and tip beyond the half way point of the nine track album. As the centre piece it’s also perhaps appropriately the only traditional song on the album. Listen to it here.

The Centre Cannot Hold is a new EP featuring the hugely talented Ríoghnach Connolly along with Ellis Davies & the equally talented Mendi Singh. You may have heard jazz and folk before but never like this! You can’t touch it!