[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/160985830″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”600″ iframe=”true” /] ‘We’ll be Ghosts’, Brooke Bentham‘s latest release via Trellis Records, is a searing, atmospheric expression of hope for a broken relationship. Can something that’s been ruined and emptied out be resurrected if you’re…
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/150623685″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /] It is enough, actually, say Canadian four-piece Barr Brothers. Over a dreamily ululating bed of marimba, dulcimer, harp and banjo, ‘Love Ain’t Enough’ lets go of cynicism to see love under every sofa…
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/165657029″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /] Long-established in the Bears Den repertoire, ‘The Clouds Above Pompeii’ is a splendid, stirring piece of perfection from a band whose debut album Islands (out 20th October) has spent rather a lot of time…
A song featuring handclaps, whistles and a ukulele always had a better than average chance of reaching For Folk’s Sake’s attention. Phox’s ‘Slow Motion’ has a depth and variety that makes it something rather special, throwing in drum solos, oboes…
Arc Iris played Rough Trade East this week to a smattering of indie-folk fans. There aren’t more than 30 people looking at the stage, and some of those are standing noncommittaly behind the protection of the first row of records,…
People who go to End of the Road festival are just better than other people. They’re kinder, they’re cleverer, and they have unendingly beautiful souls. Apart from the guy standing next to us at tUnE yArDs on Sunday afternoon who…
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/161645965″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] Here’s a pretty piece of flesh if ever we heard one: a fable of precious metals and poison showers that’s out to fool you with its warm harmonies, tender guitar and glowing vocals. They’re…
The first single off James Yorkston’s forthcoming album The Cellardyke Recording And Wassailing Society (a jolly collaboration with a host of good Scottish people) is a mellow, sauntering piece of pop. With a visually addictive bloodied monochrome marvel of a video to…
Having, mercifully, nothing in common with the 1995 classic of the same name, ‘I’m a Dreamer’ is a softly-moving vintage classic for 2014. Sidling through early 20th Century piano, heartfelt harmonica and shuffling snare, the title track off Josephine Foster’s…
Deaf Heat opens with the unflinchingly peculiar ‘Tongues’: darkly modulating harmonies bend two minutes into a bottomless eternity of human voices, cutting through hearts like ice. Lead track ‘Deep Green’ thunders in after the ethereal strangeness of ‘Tongues’, imagining the body as…