Fires crackling, a warm breeze tangling through your hair, lush green lands, open plains and rolling hills. Tales of love, death, and empowerment, entwined with morals, warnings, and memories. This is what folk music gifts to us and what listeners…
The music of Jack Cooper’s current band Modern Nature bears little resemblance to the music he made as half of Ultimate Painting. There really is no standard path that leads from there to No Fixed Point In Space. The shift…
Devendra Banhart is no stranger to anyone who reads these pages. Flying Wig sees the Houston-born musician and songwriter releasing his 11th album into the wild. He is 21 years deep into a recording career and shows no slowing down…
For fans of Margo Cilker’s splendid 2021 debut Pohoryville there’s good news. The follow-up to that album, Valley of Heart’s Delight, offers eleven more songs in the same rich musical vein. Acoustic guitar, bass and drums are joined most prominently,…
Having a sense of humour in the music business helps, and Kenny Bates, who trades as Quitter, definitely has one. Which is why his album Monument Road has been credited with being recorded in, “flats, homes, cupboards, bedrooms and burnt…
Perennial means to last eternally, to return time and time again with each year, to flower, or to emerge with the seasons. It’s an apt moniker for this new release from Brooklyn psych/folk ensemble Woods, who seem almost organic themselves.…
It’s hard to mention Buck Meek without also mentioning Big Thief, his critically acclaimed folk group whose shivering melody lines and uncanny lyrical turns have earned them an almost supernatural status amongst fans and critics alike. But this album isn’t…
It’s been thirteen years since Anna Brønsted’s band Our Broken Garden released their last album, the swooning Golden Sea. For the longest time, it seemed even to Brønsted as if the record – critically-acclaimed though it was – would be their…
Worlds collide on Clementine Valentine’s new album The Coin that Broke the Fountain Floor. Creating a sound that combines synths with guitars and layers of vocals, Clementine and Valentine Nixon construct a hybrid based on song stylings that go back…
It’s a bold move to put your catchiest song near the end of an album, where fickle listeners might well miss it. But on her new record, Caitlin Canty takes that chance. It is, indeed, a gentle and generous boldness…