Meg Baird seems ready to give a solo career a serious go. When the Espers vocalist took time out between the band’s second and third albums to release 2007 debut Dear Companion, it almost had the feel of a one-off…
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EP | Goodnight Lenin – The Wenceslas Square
The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel: Goodnight Lenin wear their influences proudly on their sleeves, like shoulder patches holding a worn out jacket together. It still fits and looks rather cool, but you can’t help wondering if it’s seen…
Album | I’m Kingfisher – Arctic
Previously best known for its musical exports in the field of metal, up-tempo indie-pop and…well, The Cardigans, Sweden now has a second bona fide folk hero to call its own. Like the Tallest Man on Earth, I’m Kingfisher is the…
EP | To Kill A King – My Crooked Saint
Sometimes it just clicks: one song, one listen, and you know a band will grace your favorites list. That’s the experience I had with To Kill a King, the latest Communion artist to tickle my fancy. The Virgin-released My Crooked…
Album | Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside – Dirty Radio
“What have these people done to music? I just don’t care anymore.” Sallie Ford is not happy. She makes this abundantly clear in, ‘I Swear’, the opening track to her debut album Dirty Radio. Left cold by modern music, Ford…
EP | Sarah Blasko – Cinema Songs
If you’re looking for new material from Sarah Blasko, Cinema Songs is not going to help you out. There’s nothing new here at all. Not only are the five tracks all covers – but they were already released, at least…
Album | Jonny Kearney & Lucy Farrell – Kite
More than most kinds of music, folk is good at doing a genre piece. I like Jonny Kearney and Lucy Farrell’s Kite in the same way many people like a good murder mystery novel or a solid romantic comedy film…
Album | Josh Rouse – Josh Rouse & The Long Vacations
Josh Rouse has always been a man whose music was of a particular place – if not necessarily of one particular place. Early albums like Dressed Up Like Nebraska and Home spoke of the American mid-west where he was born.…
Album | Flashguns – Passions of a Different Kind
Wandering around the Underage Festival in 2009, I came across many bands that have since faded from memory. My search for the ‘next big thing’ seemed hopeless; that is, until I saw Flashguns. Their urgency as a live act left…
Album | St Vincent – Strange Mercy
Deviating from the ‘a picture of my head’ model that has dominated St Vincent’s cover art until now, Strange Mercy presents us with a crooked, milky mouth of death that’s a much more appropriate indicator of the experience ahead. Replete…