phil tyler

Powtes’ “Destroying A Living” is a sonic monument to the common folk dispossessed when the Fens were drained. A six-piece band helmed by Gus Beamish, they bring the ecstasy of group improvisation to the austerity of the drone. It sounds as if they’re all performing live in the same room, responding to the warp and weft of their collective humanity.

Cath & Phil Tyler have recorded a version of the folk classic I Come And Stand At Every Door. Proceeds will go to the charity War Child, the only specialist international charity for children affected by conflict.

Taken from their album ‘What We Thought Was A Lake Was A Field Of Flax’, watch Phil Tyler & Sarah Hill performing Matt Hyland, a folk song which also appeared on Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick’s 1968 album ‘But Two Came By’.

Phil Tyler and Sarah Hill’s ‘What We Thought Was A Lake Was A Field Of Flax’ is an exceptional album. Engaging and intriguing in equal measure, it’s certainly one of the best albums of 2022.

Filmed deep in the woods by our good friend Harry Wheeler (Harmonic Rooms), watch Cath & Phil Tyler performing The Two Sisters from their new album The Ox and the Ax which is out on 30 March via Thread Recordings. 

If you like your music honest and free from studio beeps and production flourishes and your vocals real and untouched by autotune, then this new album from Anglo-American duo Cath and Phil Tyler should hold you. Well worth the eight-year wait.

Our Song of the Day is from is from CWK Joynes & The Restless Dead and features in an ongoing series of collaborative limited edition 7″ releases. Also features Phil Tyler, Pete Um & Woodcraft Folk.

Phil Tyler is best known as being part of a duo with Cath Tyler but for his latest release he ventures solo with banjo on We Sunk The Ship To Get Rid Of The Rats.

Back in 2008 we saw Anglo-American duo Cath and Phil Tyler release their debut album ‘Dumb Supper’ to great critical acclaim across all divides of the modern folk landscape – as Plan B rightly noted, “Dumb Supper is one of those rare modern folk albums that will find a home both in the longstanding ‘traditional’ music community and among those attracted to the form’s more experimental and lo-fi possibilities”. And …