A second release of the year from David Ford, and – there’s no getting around it – it’s a jazz album. And oh my lord, it’s a good one. Teaming up with saxophonist Ben Castle, pianist Mark Edwards, drummer Darren…
Album | David Ford – Love And Death
Category: Reviews
Album | Hushman – Hushman
“I am not from a family of tradition bearers, but my forebears hail from all over the British Isles and music is in my bones. I think song is a great medium to tell a story and it’s an amazing…
Album | Caitlin Rose – Cazimi
When Caitlin Rose burst on to the scene in 2010 with her delightful debut album Own Side Now, followed up soon after with The Stand-In, her star instantly shone bright. Rave reviews heralded the arrival of a powerful new voice,…
Album | Eliza Carthy & The Restitution – Queen of the Whirl
“Music is mathematics. You can actually learn about the science of how arpeggios affect your nervous system. Music is so undervalued. It can be life-changing.” – Eliza Carthy To be honest, if you’re reading this review on For Folk’s Sake,…
Album | Ziggy Alberts – Dancing In The Dark
In a world that seems to be filled with so much hate and destruction all the time, it can be hard to escape and switch off from the negativity of it all, especially when our screens are built to almost…
EP | Rose and Finch – Lucy
In the works since 2017, this four-track EP sees the eponymous twin frontwomen from FFS favourites The Frisbys take their first steps as a duo. Playing every instrument bar drums and electric guitar/bass themselves alongside their well-established and beautiful vocal…
Album | Native Harrow – Old Kind of Magic
In the first few days of 2021, the two-piece London band Native Harrow – Stephen harms and Devin Tuel – moved to Brighton, on the south coast of England, living at the top of a crumbling, regency building and decided…
Album | Paul Thomas Saunders – Figure In A Landscape
Everyone has had an excess of time for introspection over the last few years, and none more so than a musician without an outlet. Paul Thomas Saunders has not released an album in eight years, much of which he has…
Album | Arny Margret – They Only Talk About The Weather
Ísafjörður must be a strange place to grow up. Almost six hours north of Reykjavik on the Westfjord peninsula of Iceland, it is a remote and dramatic landscape, one where tall mountains can block out the sun for several months…
EP | Josienne Clarke – Now & Then
Surprises come in many forms, but none in any finer or more beautiful shape than this release by Josienne Clarke. Recorded as a stop gap between last year’s amazing A Small Unknowable Thing and its companion EP I Promised You…