Vices. Sometimes they can feel so good, but you know they’re usually wrong. That’s pretty much how Katy Young and Rosa Slade had grown to feel about some of the music they were making as Peggy Sue. Which is why,…
Album | Peggy Sue – Vices
Category: Reviews
Album | Frazey Ford – U Kin B The Sun
Frazey Ford is one of those artists you would happily listen to singing the proverbial phone book. You’d be unlikely to make out any of the names or addresses, but her rich voice, clearer in its emotion than its enunciation,…
Album | Alex Rex – Andromeda
Some records you listen to because you are drawn to them like a moth to a flame. Andromeda by Alex Rex is just such a record. It is a descent into the dark recesses of a man who has seen…
Album | The Lone Bellow – Half Moon Light
Connections are at the heart of what makes The Lone Bellow so special, and on Half Moon Light the bonds are everywhere. Opening the record, ‘Intro’ features Zach Williams’ grandmother playing piano at the funeral of her husband of sixty-four years. This family connection…
Live | Smoke Fairies @ Soup Kitchen, Manchester
“If we started a cult now, would you all join?” It’s funny where a conversation about being stuck in a lift can go, but as Katherine and Jessica sort their tunings for ‘Elevator’, they’re apparently contemplating a new concept for…
Album | Sam Lee – The Old Wow
Sam Lee is a man who needs no introduction to anyone reading these pages. This is his fourth solo record and deserves as much recognition as his Mercury Award debut effort, Ground of its Own. This song hunter extraordinaire has…
Album | Drive-by Truckers – The Unraveling
“This madness has to stop.” Those words by Patterson Hood are at the emotional core of the Drive-by Truckers new record, The Unraveling. Coming almost four years after American Band, this is a record that nobody really wanted to make. “They’re…
Album | Graham Norwood – Out of the Sea
Out of the Sea is the debut album from singer-songwriter Graham Norwood. Despite its being his first release, Graham is clearly a very experienced and observant musician. From beginning to end Graham displays the diversity of songwriting and composition of…
Yorkston/Thorne/Khan – Navarasa: Nine Emotions
An admission to begin with: As someone who has only dipped in and out of James Yorkston’s music over the years (despite being impressed by everything I’ve heard) this collaboration had totally passed me by until this moment. Navarasa: Nine…
Album | Bonny Light Horseman – Bonny Light Horseman
Folk music doesn’t simply exist. It constantly reinvents its self, creating something both old and new at the same time. Bonny Light Horseman – the group and the album created by Anais Mitchell, the singer/songwriter behind the Tony winning Hadestown;…