Albums

30 years out from their groundbreaking 1988 album, “The Trinity Sessions,” the Cowboy Junkies continue to evolve, with clever arrangements and new stories to tell. All That Reckoning is their most overtly political album to date, cementing their status as a great band.

Effortlessly enjoyable, the silver thread of “Llinyn Arian” is one which binds us to its mother-daughter creators. Strewn throughout this album are themes of journeys and resolutions born from joy, love, collaboration, and community.

You Never Were Much of a Dancer is an absorbing, original and varied debut that demonstrates the skill and consideration this talented musician possesses.

An exceptional album from Sophie Cooper & Ben Nash (recorded back in 2009 and released on Sheffield’s Blackest Rainbow Records) made available digitally for the first time.

Tim Linghaus’ Memory Sketches takes the listener on a very personal journey during which he takes precious personal memories from his own past and preserves them in music. An album filled with both melancholy and immense beauty.

Listening to Ten Thousand Miles will bring back memories of the very best Irish pub sessions…but, for a pub session to sound as good as this, you’d probably have to be in heaven, that’s the magic of Danú.

If it’s her aspiration of seeking perfection in song-writing and performing, then Love Come Down takes Thea Hopkins one step closer to this goal – the pinnacle of her recorded output so far.

Fen, Farm & Deadly Water is an album filled with fun, thought and good tunes. The Trio bring a distinct flavour of versatility – in tunes, songs and arrangements. A lovely album with a great variety; a very accomplished set of parts and a very cohesive whole.

Kindness, A Rebel finds River Whyless taking a new and refreshing direction from their debut and confirms that the Asheville, North Carolina quartet are an increasingly musical force to be reckoned with.

“Over the Years,” a collection of demos made from 1968 to 1980, is an outstanding new release from Graham Nash. The songs are brilliantly underproduced, raw and naked, mainly recorded with just acoustic guitar and piano. There’s raw, heroic quality hidden in these versions.

Following the release of her 2015 album, The Ones That Got Away, Paisley-born Jill Jackson returns with her very fine new album “Are We There Yet?’ which was produced by Boo Hewerdine.

All Souls seduces the senses with songs that individually open from a distance and come rapidly closer, but collectively flow along like a gentle river current. An album that’s sure to become a firm favourite.