Three Blind Wolves signed to Communion Records after making a serious impression at the label’s Christmas party at the Notting Hill Arts Club in 2010. The Sound of the Storm had previously had an extremely limited release on the band’s…
Author: For Folk's Sake
Album: Explosions In The Sky – Take Care, Take Care, Take Care
Take Care, Take Care, Take Care is standard Explosions in the Sky fare: thoughtful, aurally and melodically indulgent, it’s an exuberant pleasure. Opening track ‘Last Known Surroundings’, typically loud, sweeps through epic guitar arrangements and definitely signals that the band…
Album: Admiral Fallow – Boots Met My Face
From time to time an album comes along that you know you will fall in love with even before the first song has come to an end – Boots Met My Face, the debut from Glaswegian quintet, Admiral Fallow is,…
Album: Bill Callahan – Apocalypse
Apocalypse is Callahan’s third studio offering since dropping the Smog moniker, and it is in many ways familiar territory: full of lessons learned the hard way, animals and the land, wry self-scathing philosophy, and everywhere the value of endurance. Musically…
Album: Sarabeth Tucek – Get Well Soon
Before we start I should point out that I don’t think of myself as the kind of person who is prone to hyperbole. In fact I’m probably the least likely person in the history of…like…ever to exaggerate. That being said,…
Album: Singing Adams – Everybody Friends Now
Students of lyrics will find plenty to keep them happy on Everybody Friends Now by Singing Adams, the current guise of former Broken Family Band frontman Steven Adams. Musicians, however, may struggle a little more. There are enjoyable little nuggets…
Album: Four Quartets – Paragon of Animals
Rob Sharples, the man behind Four Quartets, is a man who delights in his musical material and indulges technical proficiency; his debut, Paragon of Animals, is a fourteen-track rumble through ever-entwining major and minor chords and impressively warm vocal harmonies…
10 questions with…Marcus Foster
In the week that his Tumble Down EP is released, Marcus Foster has taken the time to answer our gently probing questions. For anyone who may not have heard your music before, can you describe it to us in less…
Album: King Creosote & Jon Hopkins – Diamond Mine
King Creosote says he might never put another record out in a physical form. His last few albums have been released in many an unconventional format, from those available to buy at gigs only, to one only available to record…
Album: The Wailin’ Jennys – Bright Morning Star
The Wailin Jennys’ Bright Morning Star is of the utmost quality, but requires a little time to take root in one’s mind. The harmonies are perfect, the dynamics are truly moving, and every track thoughtfully arranged. This being said, it…