“Stubenhocker? How do you say this?” Anja Plaschg searches for the word while needlessly apologising for her English. Homebird? “Yes,” she agrees. “I’m a homebird.” As she prepares to release her third studio album as Soap&Skin, we’ve asked Anja to…
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyoKUZuxQ2w[/embedyt] Our new session comes from Brighton-based duo Hickory Signals, performing their version of Frankie Armstrong’s ‘Doors To My Mind’. After releasing several EPs the duo are gearing up to launch their debut album, Turn To Fray, on the…
You could say Mad Crush know a thing or two about music. Only years of experience can explain the wry wit and complimentary musicianship of the songs on the band’s forthcoming, self-titled debut album. One part June Carter sassing Johnny…
Right away, Roses & Cigarettes Acoustic Sessions feels like home. At the very least, it does to this humble writer, who originally hails from the exact windswept plains and rolling hills so eagerly expressed through sound with their forward-looking folk-rock aesthetic.…
Starla Starshine’s latest tune is pervaded by authenticity in a sense rarely observed, even in musical form. While, yes indeed, the indie rocker and psychedelic folkster’s transformation into both the Starshine moniker and the artistic expression to come with it…
It began at a Kate Bush concert. Field Music’s Peter Brewis met solo artist and Admiral Fallow member Sarah Hayes, and everything clicked. “I’d been an admirer of Field Music for a good while before meeting Peter at the gig,…