Music and misery have long gone hand in hand. In his novel High Fidelity, Nick Hornby pairs the two in a chicken/egg ‘which came first?’ scenario. Certainly, we are moulded by the music we listen to as we grow up.…
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HHf2wP-u_U[/embedyt] Our new session is with multi-instrumentalist Sephine Llo, with the title track from her recent album I, Your Moon. The album has particular poignancy after the death of Sephine’s husband and musical collaborator Robert Lloyd-Wilson (of Autumn Chorus),…
Good things can come from bad news. Elle Mary was a mainstay of the Manchester folk scene, launching and running The Folk Cellar and playing her own acoustic material. But following a break-up, she ditched the acoustic guitar for an…
When people mention “jazz” to today’s listeners, they will probably think about alternative monoliths like Kamasi Washington, or Colin Stetson. People who were young in the 90s will go as far as recalling the Detroit scene, Tortoise, Sea and Cake,…
Sir Canyon’s Noah Lamberth is an innovator. Yet, whenever he’s successfully blending genres, influences, and ideas, into his next psychedelic country fête, he makes it look oh-so-easy. The masterful singer-songwriter wasn’t always intent on producing the newfound windswept sound that…
No Burden, recorded in 20 hours as a school project, led to a 20 label bidding war for Lucy Dacus. When the dust settled she signed with Matador, mostly because they saw her live rather than simply watching her on…