by Dominic J Stevenson • • Comments Off on Album | Justin Townes Earle – Single Mothers
Earle Junior’s latest album starts with the gorgeous ‘Worried Bout The Weather,’ and the chilled out country vibe instantly impresses. This apple didn’t fall far from the tree. In fact, this track by way of an introduction to the artist…
The new Moonface release feels like both an album and an EP. There are five songs here, with the final two totalling over 19 minutes and the stretched-out length doesn’t feel much like an EP as we know it. But…
by For Folk's Sake • • Comments Off on Album | The Travelling Band – The Big Defreeze
The album from Manchester’s Travelling Band is full of emotionally driven, instrumentally catchy and lyrically powerful songs. As The Big Defreeze was my first experience with the band, I can say with certainty I will be taking a trip through…
by For Folk's Sake • • Comments Off on Album | Adam Cohen – We Go Home
When I first heard about Adam Cohen I greeted both he and his music with a subtle expectation and a preconceived idea of what he should be as an artist. When Leonard Cohen is your father – a Canadian national…
Sean Rowe’s voice is an astonishing instrument. It has soul, it has a deep, warm, raw animal energy, and it has a magnificent bluesy timbre. Yet, it is also focussed and beautiful. It’s hard not to be totally overwhelmed by…
by Dominic J Stevenson • • Comments Off on Album | Hiss Golden Messenger – Lateness of Dancers
Hiss Golden Messenger’s latest record, the band’s fifth, is one of those records that does what the artist would hope – it encapsulates the act in a ten-song set, and at its peak, paints a beautiful scene on a canvas,…
by Danny Brothers • • Comments Off on EP | The Dunwells – Show Me Emotion
Brothers Joe and Dave Dunwell alongside cousins Jonny Lamb and Rob Clayton – aka The Dunwells – are attempting to ditch the ‘Americana’ tag of previous releases and if Show Me Emotion is anything to go by then this new…
by Dominic J Stevenson • • Comments Off on Album | Avi Buffalo – At Best Cuckold
You could be forgiven for having forgotten about this band. Avi Buffalo’s wonderful and summery debut hit like an early decade bullet to the senses. It wasn’t just the sound and how good the songs were, but the potential the…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Exclusive Stream | Neil Holyoak – Rags Across The Sun
Canadian-American musician Neil Holyoak is primed to release his fifth LP, Rags Across The Sun, and we’re delighted to be able to bring you an exclusive stream of the record before it’s out next week. The Los Angeles native, who…
by Joe Sweeting • • Comments Off on Album | Dry The River – Alarms in the Heart
Returning with the follow up to 2012’s Shallow Bed, Dry the River have created an album much fuller in sound and vision in Alarms in the Heart, which should see them please old fans and attract new ones along the…