Albums

Lightning, Show Us Your Stuff, finds veteran singer-songwriter Grant-Lee Phillips addressing the strange fragility of life.

With ‘Into The Depths of Hell’, Belfast-based Joshua Burnside delivers yet another challenging but electrifying album. Potent and thought-provoking, it’s one to cherish.

Memories are strange things and Annie Dressner’s memories from Coffee at the Corner Bar enable listeners to enter a world they may never have visited, but probably understand better than they think.

McVittie never loses the wide-eyed sense of wonder at the poetry of the natural world. If she set out to reflect that beauty and wonder in music, she has succeeded admirably.

Joshua Burnell grabs our attention and imagination with this brilliantly accessible album, bursting at the seams with ideas, imagery and an assured ability with melody and song structure. Outstanding.

Thread is a wonderful, deeply thought out, rich and engaging album that manages to sound completely original within the parameters of its musical roots.

As well as demonstrating great taste, Dana Gavanski’s ‘Wind Songs’ doesn’t simply recreate old arrangements, it celebrates classic material making it live for new generations.

Wells describes The United State as being about what it means to be human, of the journey from cradle to grave and what connects us along the way

The observations, commentaries, responses to the pandemic by Robb Johnson strike more than a note. Listen and make sure that these were The Days We Don’t Forget.

The undeniably beautiful songs of Murder, And The Birds relish the ugly and the odd… Jaycock is a master of carefully managed contradictions, and a true original.

Hold Fast reflects Stick In The Wheel’s acceptance of diverse musical forms and their radical desire to change things for the better. An urgent and quite brilliant album.

For Western Swing & Waltzes, Colter Wall’s third album, he has immersed himself in America’s cowboy song tradition…saddle up and ride with him on these happy trails.