If the story of Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs is anything to go by, sometimes you don’t even need to leave the comfort of your own garage to deliver something innovative to the world. Now, that isn’t to say that…
Album | King Ropes – Green Wolverine
Category: Records
Video Premiere | Ben Noble – Little One (Living Room Session)
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: a songwriter from the American Midwest who retreated to a cabin to record his debut album. Yeah, you’re probably thinking about Bon Iver right now. But shift your sights from Wisconsin to…
Premiere | Jarle Skavhellen – ‘Coming Home’
Evoking shades of Noah Gundersen and The Tallest Man on Earth, Norwegian up-and-comer Jarle Skavhellen presents ruminative, lilting folk to captivate the senses. In this case, the atmospheric layers of sound that Skavhellen introduces to listeners in ‘Coming Home’ represents…
Album | Paul Maged – The Glass River
Sometimes, artists burst out of their respective scene with a real humdinger straightaway. Most of the time, however, music takes time to settle into and own, regardless of passion. For every Jackson 5 bursting out of the scene in preadolescence,…
Video | Arden and the Wolves – ‘Poison Heart’
In her pursuit of music and magick, Arden Leigh has taken a multi-folded path in life. What seems to converge these paths more than even the creative light between them, though, is a search for passionately expressed truths. You can…
Album | Gwenno – Le Kov
There are records which, from the moment you start listening to them, let you enter their unique world, connected but different from the real one. During a recent workshop on digital trends in the music industry, the producer drew a…
Premiere | Ivan Moult – Carried Over Water
Ivan Moult’s Longest Shadow is no ordinary break-up album. It spans the complete arch, from the first spark of romance to the bitter recriminations and pain that comes when it falls apart. Moult tackles all of this with his trademark…
Video premiere | Paul Aiden – Ticket To The Moon
After making his name as half of dance duo Chimes, and working as a songwriter for a string of artists for the likes of Universal, Island and EMI, Paul Aiden has struck out on his own. His first ever release,…
Album | Haley Heynderickx – I Need To Start A Garden
In recent years, two labels have stood out as the greatest representatives of quality Americana: Paradise of Bachelors for ‘band’ Americana, and Mama Bird for ‘solo’ Americana. When I discovered that I Need To Start A Garden was being released…
Premiere | Mitch Rivers – Easy Way Out
Mitch Rivers’ biography describes him as a “roving, restless man” and straight away you can hear that in ‘Easy Way Out’, the bright and breezy new single taken from his upcoming debut album which is due this spring. Carried by…