Honest, in-depth album reviews by KLOF Mag – championing and curating intelligent, uncompromising voices in contemporary and experimental music since 2004.
Albums
The First Ten is the long awaited debut album from Jack Day. Beautifully written and performed by the young singer-songwriter who has been become a ‘must see’ on the thriving London scene.
True Gents are a mighty 8-piece Collective from Perthshire, Scotland who include amongst their numbers Ross Ainslie and Gordon Duncan Jr (Son of the legendary piper). Their debut album is an absolute cracker!
The Man Who Died In His Boat is the latest release from the ethereal sounding Grouper. Like the washed up wreckage of a sailboat that inspired the album it is stangely entrancing and peaceful.
One of the main lyrical preoccupations of Rick Redbeard‘s debut solo album ‘No Selfish Heart‘ is time – its slipperiness, its sadness, the alluvial deposits it leaves behind in its passing.
Lord Huron’s debut album ‘Lonesome Dreams’ will lead you to places you least expect unwinding like a film of wide open spaces creating rich soundscapes that conjure wilderness and ghosts of the past.
Road to Palios is the latest album from Ryan Francesconi & Mirabai Peart featuring guitar and violin duets which use inspiring minimalist instrumental meanderings to capture your heart with. Magical.
Jesca Hoop’s new album ‘The Complete Kismet Acoustic’ is about rediscovery in many ways…her best album yet…as Tom Waits once said “her music is like going swimming in a lake at night”
The latest offering from Edinburgh based roots collective Southern Tenant Folk Union ‘Hello Cold Goodbye Sun‘ is fizzing with emotional charge…challenging, inventive and original, it doesn’t get much better!
Lily Mae is a 16 year old contemporary folk singer-songwriter from Bucks County, PA. She recently released her stunning debut EP ‘Early Days’. We caught up with Lily and her sister Chloe, also her lyricist!
The Black Twig Pickers are back with a new album Rough Carpenters. All those small musical nuances go to make up the unique whole…As Gangloff explains, “It’s not the melody, it’s the moss.”
