Melancholia gives way to the slightest glimpse of hope on Such A Sky, the surprise new EP from BBC Folk Award winner Josienne Clarke and former Mercury Prize nominee Kit Downes. Though the pairing of Clarke’s voice with a virtuosic…
The music of The Unthanks defies description and labels. Technically they could be considered a folk band, but when’s the last time a folk band covered King Crimson? Their albums fall into two categories: releases featuring their own music along…
Chalk/Flint offers an interesting soundscape, and an insight into the creativity of Isobel Anderson. Vocally, Anderson shares many similarities with Laura Marling, and on this, her forth release, she delivers a paean to the ethereal nature of world. It is…
As someone who’s followed New York-based folk-soul duo Overcoats for much of the past two years, listening to Hana Elion and JJ Mitchell’s full-length debut Young is a tad bittersweet. On one hand, Elion and Mitchell’s sound differs slightly from…
Calling Hannah Harding a folk singer really doesn’t do her justice. While being compared to the likes of Kate Bush and Scott Walker is heady company, the music she creates distills moments of lyrical beauty and musical complexity. Under the…
For the past six months Joe Innes has been parading around Twitter with an increasingly bombastic persona. He boasts of ‘HUGE’ gigs and lambasts the ‘FAKE NEWS MEDIA’. He even has a hat. It reads, in bold type: ‘MAKE JOE…
In advance of the release of his second EP Bathing Beach, Novo Amor returned to London’s beautiful Hoxton Hall. Opening the evening was singer-songwriter Blanco White, who wowed the audience with his delicately constructed songs. Having studied the Spanish guitar…
It’s been quite the year for For Folk’s Sake favorites The Accidentals, who’ve been riding through 2017 on a wave of good vibes and stellar new music after being signed by Sony Masterworks. The inimitable Michigan trio has been touring…
For every Young, McCartney, and Baez—brilliant songwriters who find acclaim on a much-deserved international scale—there’s a composer, performer, and lyricist who can prove their worth just as well who falls through the cracks. In the case of artists like Chaim…
What a thrill it was to first crack open American High’s debut full-length record for a potential review from this writer. Not because the associated press release attached to the Sacramento-based quartet promised tunes both bizarrely pop-oriented and thematically dark…