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Bella Union announce the release of John Grant’s second solo album ‘Pale Green Ghosts’ which was recorded in Iceland and features Sinead O’Connor on guest vocals. Watch the video for the title track.

Folk Radio UK talks to Bella Union’s co-founder and runner Simon Raymonde as they prepare to celebrate their 15th Anniversary at this year’s End of the Road Festival!

Folk Radio UK talks to Roy Harper as he gears up to his headlining appearance at Moseley Folk Festival on Saturday 1 September. Roy talks about his music, Jonathan Wilson and more…“I’m far from done!”

With their much-anticipated début album due for release next month on Bella Union, POOR MOON have announced three UK live performances to follow its release.

The Walkmen reveal another new video, this time for album track ‘Heartbreaker’. Directed by frequent Bella Union collaborator Alex Southam.

The Walkmen unveil their new video for ‘The Love You Love’ which features Hamilton Leithauser with his son and is directed by Sean Pecknold.

[rating=3] Two narratives will dominate discussion of Hannah Cohen’s Child Bride. The first situates her within a lineage of female singer-songwriters. The second recounts Cohen’s past life as a model before explaining the album’s emergence from a dizzyingly fashionable New York scene comprising artists like Ryan McGinley and Terry Richardson as well as a stable of the city’s finest musicians. But both approaches, straying too far from her music, fail …

★★★★★ An intricate web of ideas that tease the ear and hypnotise the soul, it’s difficult to believe that Andrew Bird‘s Break It Yourself took around about a week to record.

Hannah Cohen announces her first-ever London headline show following the release of her highly anticipated debut album ‘Child Bride’.

★★★★★ On Peter Broderick‘s latest album ‘It Starts Hear’ the “living liner notes” shed light on the genesis of each song, many of which are borne out of events in his personal life.

To celebrate their 15th anniversary Bella Union are to host their own stage at this year’s End of the Road festival.

Lanterns on the Lake’s debut LP ‘Gracious Tide, Take Me Home’ has considerable focus on the sea and the beautiful and terrifying expanse of ebbing and flowing tides also stands as a metaphor for disparate emotional states, situation, memory and hope.