As an instrument sounding a clarion call for self-awareness and awakening in a divisive world, Gilkyson is finely tuned and Secularia a career-defining musical apotheosis.
Watch Gabriel Kahane’s video for “Baltimore” taken from his forthcoming album, “Book of Travelers”, an album inspired by an 8,980 miles train journey, the strangers he met and the tales they told.
One of the year’s finest releases, both a brilliant introduction to Reg Meuross’ work for newcomers and a superb collection of reworkings for long-standing admirers.
Like the Fens landscape that helped inspire it, one needs to spend time with this album, soaking up the music’s myriad of subtleties and the understated patterns of rhythm, sound and language – mesmeric and haunting.
30 years out from their groundbreaking 1988 album, “The Trinity Sessions,” the Cowboy Junkies continue to evolve, with clever arrangements and new stories to tell. All That Reckoning is their most overtly political album to date, cementing their status as a great band.
Gregory Alan Isakov’s highly anticipated new album, Evening Machines, will be released October 5. In advance of the release listen to the album’s first single, “Chemicals”.
Patrick Watson has revealed his video for new single Melody Noir. The video was directed by Patrick Watson and fellow Canadian Brigitte Poupart and produced by Olivier Sirois. The song was inspired by an incredible singer from Venezuela, Simon Diaz.
New Zealand’s Marlon Williams delivers a powerful performance of ‘Make Way for Love’ featuring The Pou Tiriao Singers whose swelling backing vocals take it to another level.
Watch the accompanying animated lyric video for Bowlegged, the compelling and thought-provoking new single from Tommy Ashby, taken from his forthcoming EP Restless Love.
If it’s her aspiration of seeking perfection in song-writing and performing, then Love Come Down takes Thea Hopkins one step closer to this goal – the pinnacle of her recorded output so far.
Kindness, A Rebel finds River Whyless taking a new and refreshing direction from their debut and confirms that the Asheville, North Carolina quartet are an increasingly musical force to be reckoned with.
“Over the Years,” a collection of demos made from 1968 to 1980, is an outstanding new release from Graham Nash. The songs are brilliantly underproduced, raw and naked, mainly recorded with just acoustic guitar and piano. There’s raw, heroic quality hidden in these versions.
