Honest, in-depth album reviews by KLOF Mag – championing and curating intelligent, uncompromising voices in contemporary and experimental music since 2004.
Albums
From the first, Curtis Harvey’s solo debut reveals itself as quite a departure for the man best known until now as the prodigious multi-instrumentalist behind Rex (Southern) and Pullman (Thrill Jockey).
Megan Henwood was a winner of the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Awards 2009. She has just released a single which we have the pleasure of adding to our Roots stream here on Folk Radio UK. There is a purity about Megan’s singing that falls outside of genre tags. She is simply a great singer songwriter with a fantastic voice.
First Aid Kit are young swedish sisters, Johanna and Klara Soderberg. They came to the attention of the public following a very innocent tribute to Fleet Foxes. After seeing Fleet Foxes perform in Sweden that weekend they felt inspired and went into the forest to record a cover of “Tiger Mountain Peasant Song”.
Shipwrecks & Static is the début solo album from Inge Thomson, who is likely to be familiar to many as part of the creative force behind Scottish four-piece Harem Scarem, and familiar to many more as part of Karine Polwart’s band, where her musical resourcefulness and incomparably beautiful
