Albums

Despite the departure of Claudia Deheza from the band a month ago, the remaining School of Seven Bells members (now duo) played an impressive show at London’s Heaven last week.

Squinch Owl is the musical moniker of singer-songwriter Sofia Albam, and while the image of a squinching owl may seem to embody a creature that is fearful and shy, the voice of this artist is anything but a passing flutter.

The Woody Nightshade is Sharron Kraus’s fourth studion album. Her fad free approach to folk continues, all be it along a different path from her last album, The Fox’s Wedding.

It’s strange to start at the end, but at the close of Micah P. Hinson’s string swathed set at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall, he stated that “music speaks for you when you can’t”.

Kerry Fowler’s solo EP, Dance of the Selkie, is a fine introduction to a promising singer songwriter who’s garnering some much deserved praise for her well-crafted and atmospheric ballads.

The Burns Unit is an 8 piece indie folk collaboration between some of the best names including King Creosote and Karine Polwart. Their much anticipated album, Side Show, was released in August.

With three previously self released albums under their belt Suntrap are hardly newcomers to the folk scene. They have now signed to Fellside for their fourth album titled Unravelling which brings a new spark and innovation to their music.

For those that love variety you can’t go wrong with this album, the combination of tempo, song, jaw dropping guitar solos, and all by the master of British Folk Rock…an outstanding album!

I recently stumbled across Wilful Missing, a young up and coming band from Bradford. Just feast your ears on the opening track from their latest EP Vast Atlantic and you’ll love them.

The Word Circuit label have finally relesed their dream project: AfroCubanism. A project that was planned back in 1996. Nick Gold, finally gets his dream come true with great results!

This is the first of our Frukie Round-ups where we take a brief look at whats out there. I’m hoping for this to be a regular and I intend to cover a broad range from Indie folk to progressive Trad…we get so many albums sent for review that we can’t possibly cover all of them but this may help re-address that balance a little.

Ben Rogers arrives in the UK this month to commence his UK and European tour to promote his debut EP The Bums of Easy Street Part 1. A Dylanesque styled troubadour with a great stage presence.