by Joe Sweeting • • Comments Off on Album | Gallery 47- Bad Production EP
Nottingham’s own Jack Peachy has been on a prolific run recently, with this 12 track EP coming just six months after the release of his latest LP Clean. Bad Production is an EP that wears its heart on its politically-active…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Album | Jakob Pek – Acoustic Medicine
While pop radio formats would rarely allow it, the recent rise of the underground poking its way through social media has given a new audience to the oft-underrated fully instrumental stylings of modern day composers. Whether it be Kaki King…
by For Folk's Sake • • Comments Off on Album Review | Mac DeMarco – This Old Dog
Mac DeMarco isn’t necessarily well known for introspective, minimalist, emotional tunes. His aura of disgust is what his critics peg him for, boxing him in as a stoner-alt music maker for the art school dropouts listening on their Urban Outfitters…
by Joe Sweeting • • Comments Off on Album | Ciaran Lavery – A King at Night EP
Ciaran Lavery is not a musician to sit on his laurels. Just a mere few months after the release of Live at the Mac, a record preserving his concert at the venue in December 2015, Lavery has returned with a…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Album | Bob Dylan – Triplicate
Outside of seldom few this side of Lennon, McCartney, and Cohen, Bob Dylan is, among other things, often considered to be the greatest songwriter of modern times. Though his gritty, offbeat vocals may be seen as less than preferential by…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Album | Jay Regan – Wash Me
In the ever-expanding world of indie records that are far better than their cover art may imply comes Jay Regan’s Wash Me. Developed with an admittedly rather captivating swirly, 70s-inspired psychedelic center, Regan’s pasted-on logo and Arial font title prove…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Album | Shawna Virago – Heaven Sent Delinquent
Don’t let the authoritarian hype fool you: we live in an era of inclusiveness, one where transgender artists like Shawna Virago are finally able to receive the attention that they’ve arguably always deserved. Shamefully, from the time that Virago first…
by Joe Sweeting • • Comments Off on Album | Fionn Regan – The Meetings of the Waters
It is difficult to believe that we are already through a quarter of 2017. Already, in the opening four months of the year, there has been a gluttony of outstanding musical releases, and it seems likely that we can add…
by Joe Sweeting • • Comments Off on News | The Unthanks return with Volume 4 of their Diversions & tour dates for Spring 2017
For Folks Sake favourites The Unthanks have announced their latest release, Diversions Volume 4: The Songs and Poems of Molly Drake, set for release on May 26th 2017. Ostensibly a continuation of their exploitative work into the folk traditions, Songs of……
by Joe Sweeting • • Comments Off on Album | San Fermin – Belong
It is a rare moment where a band presents themselves as being an ensemble performing expansive chamber-pop, yet, back with their third LP of such music, San Fermin return with Belong. Primarily a construct by Ellis Ludwig-Leone, who has previously…