Category: Reviews

Album | Jennifer Castle – Camelot

Canadian songwriter Jennifer Castle’s seventh album Camelot is a real fusion of the fantastical and the mundane, one flowing seamlessly into the other through themes of mysticism – apt, given the mystical, legendary seat of King Arthur’s court from which…

Album | Laura Marling – Patterns In Repeat

The intimate nature of Laura Marling’s eighth studio album is apparent before she has even played a note. We hear shuffling, voices, a yelp from Marling’s infant daughter, as they get themselves arranged in the home studio where Patterns In…

Album | Ben Folds – Sleigher

Following on from the success of his last album, What Matters Most, singer-songwriter Ben Folds dishes up an early festive treat with Sleigher, a delightful assortment of original songs and reimagined Christmas classics. Most of the album is a solo…

Album | Andrew Bird & Madison Cunningham – Cunningham Bird

One of the great lost treasures among record collectors is Buckingham Nicks, an album released over fifty years ago, long out of print, never officially released on CD and unavailable on streaming services like iTunes. Featuring a pre-Fleetwood Mac Lindsay…

Album | The W Lovers – For a Day or a Lifetime

Fleur and Wesley Wood make an interesting couple. He’s from the state of Washington, while she hails from New Zealand. Since meeting in 2014, they have created a musical blend marrying acoustic instruments with heartfelt lyrics and pure vocal harmonies.…

Single | Renee Maskin – Sage

Just in time for spooky season, Renee Maskin’s ‘Sage’ is set in a haunted house. Directed by John Decker, the music video is captures the eeriness of isolation mixed in with a gorgeous, antiquated aesthetic. It’s a subtle otherworldly mystique…

Album | Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage – In The Dark We Grow

In The Dark We Grow is the fourth full-length album by UK-based folk duo Hannah Sanders and Ben Savage and takes listeners down a different path than their introspective 2022 release Ink of the Rosy Morning, which was born in…

Album | Kate Prascher – Shake The Dust

The human condition. It is immeasurably complex, multi- faceted, beautiful and terrible, mournful yet joyous – and it has been an endless fountain of inspiration for artists through the ages. It is into this source that Tennessee-born singer-songwriter Kate Prascher…