All The Bee sneak up on you. While the music is quiet and seems unassuming, the effect it has takes hold and won’t let go. Kirsty McGee and Gitika Partington sing and play in ways that are outside of the…
Album | All The Bees – All The Bees
Album | Beans On Toast – The Toothpaste And The Tube
Life. It’s something you just can’t run from. It’s one big whirlwind of emotions, which forces us to face struggles, love, and loss and to make decisions on how we want to live it. Beans on Toast’s new album The…
Album | Smoke Fairies – Carried in Sound
In the muddled pathways of the pandemic, the Smoke Fairies looked less at the glass ball, reaching instead for reflecting on lives, loves and losses that formed Carried in Sound. What’s most striking is the way, with the aid of…
Album | King Creosote – I Des
Reunited with producer Des Lawson for a first album since 2016’s Astronaut Meets Appleman, much-loved Fife veteran King Creosote (aka Kenny Anderson) is in prime form on an eclectic set. A long time in the making – the central pairing…
Session | Rosie H Sullivan – Fragments
Today’s session track comes from Rosie H Sullivan, playing the tender song ‘Fragments’ from her recently released EP In My Nature – available everywhere you’d expect. We met up with Rosie before her gig at The Grace in London, part…
Album | Thea Gilmore – Thea Gilmore
The strange days are over. Thea Gilmore survived a rancorous divorce with an album documenting that toxic relationship, Afterlife released under the name Afterlight. But now she returns with an album 25 years in the making, and one markedly self-titled,…