Defining Neil Young is a fool’s task. Whatever Young you choose to describe only hints at the mercurial musician who has recorded everything from the gentlest of acoustic music to the almost unlistenable sounds residing on ARC. The 10 recordings…
Category: Reviews
Album | Jason Isbell – Foxes In The Snow
Renowned songwriter Jason Isbell celebrated 13 years of sobriety in February of 2025. A well earned achievement that came after a difficult year in which Isbell filed for divorce from singer-songwriter Amanda Shires in December of 2023. Isbell left the…
Album | Polly Paulusma – Wildfires
Polly Paulusma’s new album, Wildfires, goes against the grain. In an age of limited attention spans and content digested in quick doses, she has released a sprawling collection; 19 songs, each with a prologue that runs anywhere from 45-seconds to…
Album | Patterson Hood – Exploding Trees and Airplane Screams
The gestation period for Patterson Hood’s Exploding Trees and Airplane Screams runs about 40 years. Which means events from his past have rung and stung him in different ways than they would have if some of the events described in…
Album | Luke Sital-Singh – Fool’s Spring
The past five years have been quite a rollercoaster ride for London-born singer-songwriter Luke Sital-Singh, who embarked on a Transatlantic journey with his wife to live the Californian dream in Los Angeles five years ago, before returning to the UK.…
Album | Seth Lakeman – The Granite Way
There are but three guarantees in life. Taxes, death and Seth Lakeman delivering magnificent albums. 13 studio albums and 23 years after he released his first solo effort, The Punch Bowl, Lakeman presents to the world a set that shows…
Album | Nadia Reid – Enter Now Brightness
Tracking all the changes Nadia Reid has gone through since her last album, Out of My Province came out in 2020, it becomes obvious we are dealing with a very different woman, one who has had a series of changes.…
Album | Bonnie “Prince” Billy – The Purple Bird
Bonnie “Prince” Billy marches to his own beat. As a musician he’s recorded with everyone from Johnny Cash to Bitchin Bajas, he’s acted in John Sayle’s movie Matewan and appeared with Zach Galifianakis in a Kayne West video. He does…
Album | Tunng – Love You All Over Again
Tunng albums transcend time. They don’t fit in a pattern of what’s popular at any particular moment. They use elements that seem to be ridiculously out of place, forming an off kilter whole residing in a world of its own.…
Album | Mary Chapin Carpenter, Julie Fowlis and Karine Polwart – Looking For The Thread
Magic occurs when people set aside preconceived notions and open their hearts and minds to a world that operates in ways we can’t understand. Throughout her career Mary Chapin Carpenter has been a solo artist. Yet during the pandemic she…