Honest, in-depth album reviews by KLOF Mag – championing and curating intelligent, uncompromising voices in contemporary and experimental music since 2004.
Albums
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About one year ago someone decided to put together a Townes Van Zandt compilation of covers by a great selection of indie artists. This week a follow up titled More Townes Van Zandt By The Great Unknown is released.
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The Farriers hail from Northern Ireland. Their music is influenced by a rich blend of Irish traditional folk / American roots. The result is upbeat and soulful songs which are full of spirit and tunes that endear you to sing along.
by Davy
The first thing you should know is that Patrick Porter lives & breathes it, whatever ‘it’ is. Artist, musician, poet, novelist, he’s certainly ran the creative gamut & still continues to be one prolific ‘ess oh bee.’
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Black To Red is released on 1st November through Distiller Records. This is the first new song to be released by Sparrow and the Workshop since the Glasgow-based trio’s acclaimed debut album, ‘Crystals Fall’.
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The Lowly knights, are Belfast’s strong tradition of literate, folk pop, present exclusively for Folk Radio UK their new nusic video!
by Davy
If there’s a more perfect essence of no-wave geek-rock cool than “The Lives Of Charles Douglas” by the Californian outpatient of the same name then I’ve yet to hear it.
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At Echo Lake is the fifth album from New York based Woods who make no efforts to run the safe gauntlet of twee folk. They head out on an altogether more surreal journey. We like it!
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A Movable West is Josiah Byars, an indie folk artist from Stockton, California. I stumbled across him by chance to find he has just released a new EP titled “We Are Clumsy creatures”.
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Long Voyage is an apt name for this Indie Folk band born from the mind of Nicolas Huart, an inveterate traveller who has journeyed well and settled in Leipzig, Germany.
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Late last week a vinyl record arrived at Folk Radio, a Double A Side 10″ Single from an artist called Jo Mango. We don’t normally receive vinyl but this weighty package held great surprises. The album artwork was beautiful, lovely imagery…two records in white (the moon) and black (the black sun) vinyl each etched with detailed and delicate illustrations by Nalle’s Hanna Tuulikki, another amazing artist with a unique and …
Formerly the project of Luke Temple, Brooklyn’s Here We Go Magic has now expanded into a five-piece, and since signing to record label Secretly Canadian just a year ago they have gone on to tour with the likes of Grizzly Bear and The Walkmen, as well as receiving praise from none other than Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, who stated of their Glastonbury performance, that it was the best thing he’d witnessed all weekend.