The opening voice sounds so close to the ears, it’s clear, personal and rings into the distant emptiness. It’s a nice opening. The voice is lovely in fact, though the song doesn’t really do much or go anywhere. It’s lovely…
The first single off James Vincent McMorrow’s January 2014 release Post Tropical, ‘Cavalier’ is a chill, falsetto memorial to a first love that’s well and truly over. The shattered-sounding vocal, which fills the space of the song with chest-aching loss…
The Cambridge Folk Festival is officially the most chilled out festival we’ve ever been to, and certainly the only one where the entire crowd at the main stage sit down in the chairs they’ve brought themselves. With easy access, friendly…
Following on from our previous announcement regarding this year’s Cambridge Folk Festival line-up, we’re increasingly pleased with the way that 2012 is shaping up, and it’s not even finished yet. The big, warm, fuzzy Mummy of fiddle-led festivals will take…
Be warned: the rise of smokey-timbre’d troubadour James Vincent McMorrow will be littered with Bon Iver comparisons. Certainly the breathy vocals, haunting harmonies, and woodsy themes in McMorrow’s debut invite such characterizations, but Early In The Morning is no brooding…