by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Premiere | Kristin Chambers – Merry Through the Year
As bold a claim as it may be, Kristin Chambers’ newest single feels a whole lot like a new holiday chestnut. Wrapped in a healing, nostalgic warmth and heart, the gentle sway of ‘Merry Through the Year’ recants the love…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Album | Norine Braun – Through Train Windows
Whether by pavement or on rails, long has the road song been celebrated in folk and Americana. Inspired by Norine Braun’s actual ‘Riding the Rails’ tour as a designated ‘Artist on Board’ alongside partner Alice Frasier, Through Train Windows has…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Album | C-Wired – Angel Circuit Engaged
Fireball troubadour Chuck Whyard is at it again with his namesake project, C-Wired. When last the singer-songwriter hit us earlier this year with the likes of Omega, For Folk’s Sake lauded his work as “multifarious” and “extroverted”. He and his band’s…
by Bob Fish • • Comments Off on Album | Malojian – Let Your Weirdness Carry You Home
Stevie Scullion believes in weirdness. Having a couple of kids, it was important to let them know a few things. “I was thinking of a way to tell them its okay to be weird and that sometimes it’s our weirdness…
by Bob Fish • • Comments Off on Album | Amy Rigby – The Old Guys
Age is just a state of mind, up to a point. No one really expected to see the Stones rocking into their seventies back in 1964. Yet that’s where we’re at today, and for Amy Rigby, at 59, she’s rocking…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Premiere | Café Spice – Lauren
Café Spice have been charming their home city of Manchester for a while now, building up a fine reputation with live performances of their beautiful harmonies and sweet tunes. And now the trio – made up of Georgia Gage, Eleanor…
by Lorenzo Righetto • • Comments Off on Album | Foxwarren – Foxwarren
In the release of Andy Shauf’s side-band debut album, nearly a decade in the making, there is much of The Party’s deserved success. The style of the record is very much in the vein of Andy’s solo release, again a…
by Bob Fish • • Comments Off on Trevor Moss and Hannah-Lou – Fair Lady London
Trevor Moss and Hannah-Lou don’t follow the rules. Their last album, 2015’s Expatriot produced by Ethan Johns, found them in a real studio – an experience that wasn’t exactly what Moss had in mind. “I like to limit the possibilities,”…
by Lorenzo Righetto • • Comments Off on Album | Bill Ryder-Jones – Yawn
Surely one of those albums that will make you double check you’ve pressed the right buttons on Spotify, Yawn is the fourth release by Bill Ryder-Jones, also known as The Coral’s guitarist. This is not only because of the considerable…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Album | Twisted Oak – Cold Coffee and Half Smoked Cigarettes
Rarely does it seem that even contemporary folk releases on the indie scene wear their hearts on their sleeves as wholly and evidently as Twisted Oak’s Cold Coffee and Half Smoked Cigarettes. Its influences and central themes are presented right on…