How would you describe your music? I try very hard not to describe it so as not to ruin it for anyone who might have their own idea what it is. I got really used to comparing it to the…
Interview | Introducing…Daniel Knox
Album | Idlewild – Everything Ever Written
In the six years since Idlewild released Post Electric Blues, they’ve had a lengthy hiatus, put out a handful of solo projects, and ultimately realised that Idlewild was something worth holding on to. They’ve returned with a clear sense of…
Album | Marika Hackman – We Slept At Last
Within folk, there’s a constant and essential need to remain within the acoustic, the wooden, the real. Crossing into unfamiliar instrumental territory can often fragment a delicately antiquated and almost traditional approach to the genre. Familiar up and down the…
Album | The Amazing – Picture You
It’s with pleasure that I greet the return of Swedish quintet The Amazing. Their 2011 album Gentle Stream was one of my favourite albums of that year, becoming something of an emotional touchstone thereafter. Its dynamic mix of minor key…
Album | Gretchen Peters – Blackbirds
Gretchen Peters’ Blackbirds is bookended by two songs of the same name. The opener is electric and confrontational, the closer a milder and softer reprise. Powered by Peters’ voice – lived-in, loaded, tainted with regret – the chorus of the…
News | New Peter Broderick album announced
A new album from Peter Broderick is expected at the end of April. Colours of the Night will be the multi-instrumentalist’s first full-length album for label Bella Union in three years. Broderick released a five-track EP under the name (Colours of the Night) Satellite late…