We first found Gibson Bull back in 2010, propping up a bar in the American deep south swigging whiskey with Woody Guthrie and The Civil Wars. Actually that last part was a lie, but his world-worn, country tones really…
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Interview and album stream | By The Sea
“We hope it sounds like a series of failed Springsteen anthems played with too many chorus pedals. That is the theme.” Thus spake The Wirral’s most promising newcomers, By The Sea. We don’t really know what it means, but the…
Interview | Introducing…Al Lewis
With first full-length English-language album, In The Wake, Welsh artist Al Lewis was nominated for the inaugural Welsh Music prize. Having set the bar so high for himself, he decamped to Nashville, Tennessee, to the studio of Charlie Peacock (The Civil Wars,…
Interview | Introducing…Mina Tindle
We loved Mina Tindle’s eponymous debut EP, and adored her first full-length album, Taranta. Here, we get the low-down on the latest French export to tickle our fancy… Hello, please introduce yourself and your music to the uninitiated and tell…
Interview | Gilmore and Roberts
Currently riding the resurgence of traditional-sounding folk are Katriona Gilmore and Jamie Roberts, who met as music students and are now three albums into a very promising career. If you like ‘proper’ folk – and God knows we do –…
Album | Dark Dark Dark – Who Needs Who
It would be difficult to listen to Dark Dark Dark’s third, full-length album, Who Needs Who, without drawing comparisons with Regina Spektor and Anna Plaschg. The first track, of the same name, has all the dramatic, ponderous piano of the…
Interview | Sofia Talvik – Sweden’s best kept secret
It’s always impressive when artists are able to survive in the music industry without the aid of major label backing or pandering to the mainstream. On the flip side, this might also explain why Sofia Talvik, Swedish alt-folkstress and founder…
Live | Lisa Marie Presley, Ed Harcourt, Luke Sital-Singh, Polly Paulusma @ The Society of the Golden Slippers
It’s a quiet Monday night in Soho and we somehow find ourselves at what must surely be the most exclusive gig in town. We arrive in time for folk stalwart, Polly Paulusma, the small British girl with a southern American…
Interview | Introducing…Alexander Wolfe
Sometimes you just need to be moody, introspective – sad, even. This is where Alexander Wolfe comes in, purveyor of what has been described as ‘doom-folk’. We’re not sure ‘doom’ quite covers it – first album, Morning Brings A Flood…
Interview | Introducing…Toliesel
There are gorgeous vocals, melodies and shoe-gazing aplenty to be found in ‘The Light’, the new single from Oxford indie-folk band, Toliesel. Having fallen in love with the mournful yet not miserable guitar riff on this beautiful slice of melancholia,…