Albums

Thomas Blake shares his Top 10 Albums of 2022 featuring Maxine Funke, Big Thief, Richard Dawson, Dana Gavanski, Burd Ellen, The Shovel Dance Collective, Bill Callahan, Jacken Elswyth, One Leg One Eye & Angeline Morrison.

Danny Neill selects his Top 10 Albums of 2022 including The Wave Pictures, Big Thief, Leyla McCalla, Molly Tuttle, Sharron Kraus, Kevin Morby, Kathryn Williams, Andrew Bird and more.

David Pratt selects his Top 10 Albums of 2022 including The Movers, The Hanging Stars, Rachel Newton & Lauren MacColl, Angeline Morrison, Ranagri, Robb Johnson, Madalitso Band, Àfrica Negra and Perú Selvático and The Watersons.

Fireside Stories provides a fascinating insight into the music of Hebden Bridge musician Trevor Beales whose life was cut short in 1987 when he was just 33. His vocal style elevates his intimate songs and gives them character and gravitas that make these unearthed recordings so rewarding.

Billy Rough selects his Top 10 Albums of 2022 including Jake Blount, Angeline Morrison, Breabach, Sam Sweeney, Trials of Cato, Peter Knight and John Spiers, Emily Portman and Rob Harbron, Tarren and more.

Read the first of our Top 10 Albums of 2022 lists from our core reviewers – Glenn Kimpton’s selections include: The Watersons, Daniel Bachman, Siskin Quartet, Andrew Tuttle, Jake Xerxes Fussell, Hushman and more.

A confident and intricately polished album, Macie Stewart’s ‘Mouth Full of Glass’ revels in the subtle and sombre, without losing its palpable sense of hope.

Robb Johnson & The Xmas Irregulars delivered a delightful extravaganza and a uniquely dark and different way to celebrate the winter season with Murder At The Grange – A Christmas Murder Mystery.

The Carrivick Sisters ‘Illustrated Short Stories’ is impeccably put together and beautifully illustrated. With cleverly constructed tales, top-class musicianship and sibling vocals to match, you have an album on which there is nothing not to like and plenty to treasure.

Psych-folk troubadour Adam Geoffrey Cole releases ‘The tracks of the Afterlander’, a sublime collection of acid folk tracks that embodies English 60s/70s psych-folk à la Pentangle, The Incredible String Band, and Fairport Convention.

For their latest release, Perú Selvático – Sonic Expedition into the Peruvian Amazon 1972-1986, the Analog Africa label once again confounds any preconceived ideas as they head to the Peruvian Amazon rainforest for some of the most exciting electric music of the 1970s and 80s.

Steeped in Scottish history and folklore, Scottish Folk Ballads of Freedom is further evidence of Sam Shackleton’s singular approach and his growing eminence beyond folk circles.