Albums

Niamh Ni Charra’s latest release, Sugach Samh / Happy out, sets a new standard in Irish tradtional music. She displays confidence and adds a new spectrum to her music with the inclusion of song. 10/10

Samling combine Scandinavian music with traditions from the British Isles. What makes them unique is the inclusion of Gaelic into the mix. Their sound is both unusual and captivating!

Admiral Fallow’s latest release, Boots Met My Face is heartfelt, honest & pure as the Scottish snow, it will take approximately sixty seconds for you to stop what you’re doing, pay attention & state “I think I’m going to love this record”

The Midsummer Nights Dream stage set up at the Royal Festival Hall, complete with lamps, foliage, a tree strung with fairy lights and a starry backdrop marked the occasion as magical before Australian siblings Angus and Julia Stone, and their Transatlantic band, even set foot on stage.

Topic Records took the folk world by surprise with their signing of Fay Hield to their label with the release of her debut album Looking Glass. Their first new artist in ten years. I can see why they did!

Kathryn Tickell’s music is sewn into the very fabric of the Northumbrian landscape just as her tutors, the sherpherd musicans of outlying farms near her home, were. Her lastest album pays a great homage to the vastness of perception and interpretation in her work.

With their second recording Wild Go receiving airplay on UK shores Dark Dark Dark’s pitch and note perfect re-creation of their Balkan inspired tracks tapped out a heartfelt oscillation between liveliness and loneliness, with the precision of it all framing their Eastern-folk and pitch dark jazz hybrid.

It’s always a pleasant surprise when an artist from way back contacts you out of the blue. I Draw Slow were a regular on the station a few years.

The candle-lit environs of Dalston’s Cafe Oto felt a particularly apt setting for chamber-folk five-piece The Magic Lantern to host their single launch party. Amongst the flickering tea-lights atop wooden tables, decorated with remnants of Organic beer and homemade cakes, a crowd of friends, family and listeners new and old gathered.

Sparrow and the Workshop released their debut back in April; the reception of which has shocked even the band itself. They may be based in Scotland but this band actually comprise of a Scotsman, Welshman and a Chicagoan girl…

Under various guises James Toth has a vast back catalogue, we’re talking number of hot dinners vast here. We review the latest album Death Seat…

Hi54LoFi artist A Singer of Songs, Lieven Scheerlinch has collaborated with New Zealander, Hollie Fullbrook aka Tiny Ruins, which perfectly unites the whispered dreamy folk of the pair.