Emerging in 2012 as BBC 6 Music presenter Steve Lamacq’s ‘One to Watch’, Luke Sital-Singh has been quietly building towards The Fire Inside, his debut album, which follows a string of EP’s released in the interim 18 months since his appearance…
Emily Barker’s latest project, Vena Portae, emerged from recording sessions in the winter months of 2012 in Sweden; the delay between recording and release the result of each members on-going musical commitments. Where Barker’s voice would usually be accompanied by…
Starlight – the third album from Bedfordshire’s Terry Emm – comes two years after the dark moods of Petals Fallen Off The Sun. This time out, we find Emm in a more reflective and happier place with the added help…
It was a step into the unknown when I first tuned in to the multi-layered, traditionally formed songs of Anja McCloskey but by the end of this twelve track second offering from the half-German, half-American musician it was a step…
Jenny Lewis’ third album has been a long time coming. The voyage of the broken relationship that informs the great part of this album has indeed been an arduous journey, but the resulting record rarely dips below sublime and will…
Annie Eve’s debut album has all the beautiful trademarks of a first EP. This is a collection of songs Annie’s been playing with and writing for a long time. Listening to Sunday ‘91, you can feel Annie’s music changing and…
Many who have preceded Malcolm Holcombe in roots music, from Hank Williams to Johnny Cash, have faced a fair amount of hardship which had left them at a dark crossroads in their life. Just as many have succumbed to a…
It’s been years in the making but the debut album from whimsical French duo Nina Goern and Yohan Hennequin aka Cats On Trees is released in the UK this week after a good chart performance in their homeland in which…
We first heard of My Grey Horse nearly four years ago, when the gentle nature sound effects that introduce their song ‘You’ll Never Learn’ circulated online. Followed up by the more mainstream – but no less brilliant – ‘Waste of…
In the 40 years since America’s all-time favourite supergroup embarked on a massive stadium tour all four members have led us to a perception which at face value makes this vast compendium – available in one-disc, four-disc, and uber-box-set form…