To Warm The Winter Hearth, the latest polyphonic masterpiece by New England vocal quartet Windborne, rolls in as the nights grow ever longer. The beautiful four-part harmonies offered by Lauren Breunig, Jeremy Carter-Gordon, Lynn Rowan and Will Rowan are the star…
Lucinda Williams hasn’t always walked the straightest road. Since 2020 she’s survived a tornado, the pandemic and a stroke that has to date kept her from playing the guitar. She’s also released two albums of her own work, and six…
If we were drawing up a list of the artists we’d most like to hear make a seasonal record, the Unthanks would be somewhere near the top. Their rich instrumentation, careful arrangements, and beautiful harmonies are just the warming sound…
Sometimes the name of a band says it all. Exuding a childlike sense of joy and wonder, the innocence mission evoke memories and marvel on Midwinter Swimmers. Memories of days long past, and marvel that we live in a world…
Aisha Badru is an alchemist. She distills human experience with all its chaos and craziness into simple human truths as she paves a pathway to introspection. On The Sun Still Rises, only her second full-length album, she looks upon her…
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…