These Walls of Mine is without doubt one of the bravest, most boldy conceived albums this year and veers about as far from the standard singer-songwriter template as it is possible for a singer-songwriter to do. It’s also a crashing…
Category: Reviews
Pictures | For Folk’s Sake presents Hush @ The Royal Albert Hall
On Saturday night, For Folk’s Sake had the pleasure of hosting Hush, a fantastic night of music in the Royal Albert Hall’s Elgar Room. A sell-out crowd enjoyed performances from Mary Epworth, Gerard & The Watchmen and Joe Innes in…
EP | Fossil Collective | On & On
David Fendick and Jonny Hooker, otherwise known as Fossil Collective, will be familiar to some as they were in the short-lived Leeds quintet Vib Gyor. Their fortunes though could be on the up. Their debut EP, Let It Go, was…
Album | Field Music – Play…
Field Music Plays… is a release that couldn’t have come at a better time for the Sunderland trio given their recent Mercury Prize nomination. Some of the eight songs compiled on this stopgap release were b-sides whilst others whilst others…
Album | Bellowhead – Broadside
The first thing to say about Bellowhead’s new album is that Broadside is a great title. Referring both to circulating ‘broadside ballads’ of centuries gone by, and to the ‘broadside’ of a ship (that’s the side with the cannons )…
New Bands Panel | Mt. Wolf – Life Sized Ghosts
This week it’s the turn of electronic-folk upstarts Mt. Wolf to go under the folk microscope. Based in London, each member was born by the sea, on the coasts of Guernsey, Dorset and Brighton. Prepare to get swept away…. Joanne Rowe: Hailing…
Album | Lau – Race The Loser
Folk too often is, by its very nature, a fairly conservative musical genre. There are enough mavericks to mix it up, of course, but when a band ambles on stage with a guitar, a fiddle and an accordian, you generally…
Album | Cowbois Rhos Botwnnog – Draw Dros y Mynydd
Depending on where you stand, lyrics are either mere words to carry a tune or a key element – a story or sentiment necessary to make a listener connect with a song. I’ve known passionate music fans as well as…
Album | Princess Chelsea – Lil’ Golden Book
Princess Chelsea (a.k.a. Chelsea Nikkel) has created an album like a gothic fairground: Lil’ Golden Book evokes spells or fairy tales, the scarier end of Disney, and Edward Scissorhands, mashed together with hints of Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, Deerhoof,…
EP | Feldspar – The Flat And Paper Sky Vol. 1
Soaring tunes, powerful vocals, lush instrumentation. If that sounds good to you, then so will Feldspar’s debut EP. And it certainly should, because this is a truly exciting debut from a band who should go far. The London five-piece announce…