Of all of the genres ever prevalent in music, blues may very well be far and away one of the most scintillating. At the very least, it certainly has the backstory to back it up, in which one would be…
Album | Saul Losada – Energy
Category: Records
Album | Guy Grogan – Glitter in the Gears
“Folk music” has evolved as a term in the eyes of critics and fans alike, everywhere, to encompass a myriad of different possibilities in regards to full definition. Whereas some are indignant in relating it purely to the Bob Dylans…
Album | Jesca Hoop- Memories are Now
This is a work of art. Now, I’m aware that with the proliferation of music in this modern age, records are often lauded before being forgotten about when the next ‘big’ thing comes around. It is unclear whether Memories are…
Album | Gert Taberner – Fallen
There has been a movement, in roots music, as of late, to get it back to its, well, roots. Amongst the drone of commercialization slapped with “folk” and “singer-songwriter” labels like it’s going out of style, there are still truth-tellers…
Album | April Martin – In the Blink of a Life
The term “folk music” and what it means to be a folk musician are both terms and ideals that have expanded exponentially since the genre’s foundation, arguably sewn in the roots of countrymen and women worldwide not aiming to be…
Album | Danophone – Rerun
You wouldn’t quite expect it from singer-songwriters hailing from coastal Denmark, but the Aalborg-centric Danophone take the greatest pride in developing wistfully lugubrious soundscapes reminiscent of the modern folk and blues that has acted as the backbone of American workingman…
Album | Worry Dolls – Go Get Gone
It has been a long journey from For Folks Sake’s first feature on Worry Dolls to here, and the release of Go Get Gone, their debut album. Back in 2013, the duo, Rosie Jones and Zoe Nichol, were not long…
Album | Mark Eitzel – Hey, Mr Ferryman
Mark Eitzel shouldn’t need any introduction and his latest solo album, the first since 2012’s Don’t Be a Stranger, starts off on familiar ground for anyone who is a fan of American Music Club. One of the great, great lyricists…
Album | The Flaming Lips – Oczy Mlody
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…
Album | Will Varley – Kingsdown Sundown
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…