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[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.

Vetiver are due to release their new album in June through Bella Union which is titled The Errant Charm, you can download a free track below. UK fans will also be pleased to hear they are doing an album launch tie-in tour in June. As I mentioned in previous posts, this does seem to be the year for a change in direction for many bands. Vetiver’s main man, Andy Cabic, …

What an end to a great year for Bella Union, their issue of John Grant’s Queen of Denmark debut successfully found itself in most magazine and national newspapers’ ‘Albums of 2010’ features, and he too headlined the last uniting of label artists at Union Chapel in the summer.

UK record label Bella Union, now in their 13th year are one of the most recognised independent labels going, not least for their discovery of Fleet Foxes which earned the label its first Platinum record, but also for their impeccable roster of artists ranging from the highly acclaimed Andrew Bird and Explosions in the Sky, to the lesser known likes of their new recruits exposed at their Evening at Union …