It’s been a long, strange trip to Oczy Mlody for The Flaming Lips. With fifteen albums under their belt since 1986, there’s really nothing left to prove. Challenging conventions has been their methodology and they’ve gotten to be very good…
There’s a gentle revolution brewing and Will Varley is at the heart of it. With little more than a guitar and a song he’s changing the game and recreating a vocabulary that was going out of style. Kingsdown Sundown is…
Tanner Porter is an artist who can capture the listener’s attention with ease. Her voice can reach far and wide and The Summer Sinks… is a good representation of her abilities and potential to grow and blossom. It isn’t perfect…
This record feels like Hiss Golden Messenger (the alias used by M.C Taylor) has just picked up where it left off with it’s majestic 2014 album Lateness of Dancers. This record is filled with the same wonder and magic as…
To folk in the East Midlands area of England, Georgie is not a new ‘name’ to music. Having been gigging around the county over the past few years, including several big shows at the Nottingham Rescue Rooms, Georgie, backed by…
Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker return with their fifth full-length album together (though one is just credited to Clarke) and fans of the previous efforts together will not be disappointed by this one either. To these ears, Clarke has one…
In Great Britain, Kate Rusby is nothing short of a national treasure, yet stateside she remains a largely unheard commodity. 14 albums in, her 24-year career has set an unrivaled standard for quality. Life In A Paper Boat does nothing…
Hval is a strange wonder. One of those who inhabits her own little universe. Tender and spooky might be how you would describe the cover and there is a sense of those feelings when listening to this music. The dark…
“It’s trying to figure out how to responsible when you don’t identify with who you were anymore” Julia Jacklin leaves a life of working in a essential oils factory well and truly behind on a debut album which is mature,…
Ballads of the Broken Few, Seth Lakeman’s eight solo album, sees the folk troubadour align himself with the Wildwood Kin, based in Devon, and whose voices add harmonies and warmth to the record. ‘Silence Reigns’ is a great example of…