The “great cremation ground” of Father John Misty’s Mahashmashana provides Josh Tillman with a way to examine the wonderfully weird life he has lived over the past ten years. The ultimate observer, he casts a jaundiced eye at the world…
Canadian songwriter Jennifer Castle’s seventh album Camelot is a real fusion of the fantastical and the mundane, one flowing seamlessly into the other through themes of mysticism – apt, given the mystical, legendary seat of King Arthur’s court from which…
The intimate nature of Laura Marling’s eighth studio album is apparent before she has even played a note. We hear shuffling, voices, a yelp from Marling’s infant daughter, as they get themselves arranged in the home studio where Patterns In…
Following on from the success of his last album, What Matters Most, singer-songwriter Ben Folds dishes up an early festive treat with Sleigher, a delightful assortment of original songs and reimagined Christmas classics. Most of the album is a solo…
One of the great lost treasures among record collectors is Buckingham Nicks, an album released over fifty years ago, long out of print, never officially released on CD and unavailable on streaming services like iTunes. Featuring a pre-Fleetwood Mac Lindsay…
Fleur and Wesley Wood make an interesting couple. He’s from the state of Washington, while she hails from New Zealand. Since meeting in 2014, they have created a musical blend marrying acoustic instruments with heartfelt lyrics and pure vocal harmonies.…
The musical path Jason Isbell has taken isn’t recommended. At the age of 22 he joined the Drive-By Truckers, ending up addicted to alcohol and coke, eventually being asked by the rest of the band to leave. Sober for over…
Just in time for spooky season, Renee Maskin’s ‘Sage’ is set in a haunted house. Directed by John Decker, the music video is captures the eeriness of isolation mixed in with a gorgeous, antiquated aesthetic. It’s a subtle otherworldly mystique…
In The Dark We Grow is the fourth full-length album by UK-based folk duo Hannah Sanders and Ben Savage and takes listeners down a different path than their introspective 2022 release Ink of the Rosy Morning, which was born in…
John Murry has lived a series of nightmares. At times it plays like a William Faulkner novel, no surprise since he was adopted before birth by his parents in an agreement with a pregnant Cherokee schoolgirl. Raised by his grandmother…