Cambridge-based post-folk collective Fuzzy Lights share video for “Under The Waves”, a heavy dose of psych-tinged folk-rock tackling the effects of the climate crisis on the oceans.
Watch the video for Echoes, the new single from Nordic songstress Ida Wenøe taken from her forthcoming third album. Delivered in two parts it’s totally outstanding…hold on to our seat.
Sidmouth Folk Festival adds more names to this year’s lineup including Seth Lakeman, Jez Lowe, Jackie Oates and John Spiers, Banter, Jack Rutter, Miranda Sykes and Hannah Martin, Granny’s Attic, Hannah Sanders and Ben Savage, James Delarre, Tim Edey and more.
Charlie Parr’s new album, Last of the Better Days Ahead, is to be released on July 30, his first for Smithsonian Folkways. Watch the video for the title track.
Some duets just sound like they were meant to be…this is one: Peter Doran is joined by Haley Heynderickx to perform Blue Mountains from his new album Voices…it really doesn’t get much better.
Tom Coll, the drummer of Irish post-punk band Fontaines DC announces ‘Goitse A Thaisce (A Compilation of Irish Music – Volume One)’ featuring The Bothy Band, Andy Irvine & Paul Brady, Ye Vagabonds, Planxty, Lisa O’Neill, The Dubliners and more.
London-based singer and multi-instrumentalist Gary Lover, the alter ego of Gareth Hoskins – singer with cult London band Tangerines, talk us through his debut album Songs of Fortune, Songs of Pain, due for release via cult label Some Other Planet records on 28th May 2021.
Aidan Moodie shares his video for ‘Old Yew’, his second single (out today), which continues his attempts to twist and distort away from what might be expected of folk song. Refreshingly original and engaging.
Watch part one of a short film on the making of Ulster trio TRÚ’s debut album ‘No Fixed Abode’. It also features Tommy Sands performing ‘County Down’ which TRÚ cover in their own unique and magical way.
Our Song of the Day comes from guitarist and composer Cameron Knowler with ‘Puerto Suelo’, the lead track from his forthcoming debut solo album Places of Consequence.
Watch Italian duo She Owl performing their new live version of “Paper Birds,” recorded late one night during a recent lockdown in Italy. The video showcases a new, more meditative arrangement of the song on which the striking contralto vocals of Jolanda Moletta are front and centre.
Listen to the 10th Anniversary Edition of Little Arrow’s debut 2011 album ‘Music, Masks & Poems’, released as a beautiful tribute to frontman, William Hughes, who was sadly lost to cancer in December 2018.
