Spell Songs – In Thin Air: Album Review
A lavish 3rd helping of songs in the key of bird, brimming with brightness and beauty, as the dream team, Polwart, Fowlis, Drever etc, reprise the impossible.
Seuras Og
"Well, what sort of music do you like, Seuras?" Ever since that question was first aired by his mother a decade or six back he has struggled with the answer. And struggles still now. Call him a folkie, a country dude, a bluesman and he'll be happy, but don't forget the whiff of jazz, electronica and more. Not so keen on the charts, mind.
Arab Strap – Half Told Tales: Album Review
Let joyful misery be outpouring, as Falkirk curmudgeons Arab Strap return, and, this time, there’s even hopefulness sneaking into their cynical icy hearts.
Christie Reeves – Sun & Shadows: Album Review
Dwell awhile as a new door opens, revealing a new voice to gild the days and nights of your listening.
Kevin Ayers – Where Do The Stars End; The Recordings 1974-80: Box-Set Review
Ayers in the studio and on the stage, baffling, bemusing and beguiling; better than history begs you to consider.
Wild Gods – The Glorious Abysmal: Album Review
Are you sitting comfortably? Wild Gods wreak havoc and make hay with the tradition. More glorious than abysmal.
Various Artists – The Old Crow Folk Club Presents the Songs of Rev Hammer, Re-imagined: Album Review
I’d pay to attend this folk club, as a varied and entertaining crew queue up to celebrate an entirely different sort of Hammer-time.
Banter – Hard Times: Album Review
A bumper banging bonanza from Banter shows that, regardless, they can’t be downhearted, needing you neither to be likewise.
Folk East 2026 – Sotterley Estate, near Beccles: Festival Review
Go (Folk) East, young man, they said; it’ll be quicker than going west. A superlative Suffolk shindig well worth the celebrating.
Elanor Moss – The Knife, The Needle: Album Review
No damage done, but Moss still tempers her silk with steel, crushing any resistance with a field full of feathers.
Jah Wobble & Tian Qiyi – Mystic Liverpool; The Beatles Psychedelic Psongbook: Album Review
The collective Wobble/Wardle family turn on, tune in and drop an album of psurprising psuccour.
Family Stereo – The Thread: Album Review
Songs anyone would, or should, want on their stereo, with old blocks and chips full to the fore.
Arun Sood & Angeline Morrison – Donn/Dubh: Album Review
Light blue touch paper and ignite the imagination! Sood and Morrison take neo-trad somewhere fully primal and provoke the senses accordingly.
Folk East – Festival Preview
Our man in a sleeping bag shortly heads east, to Sotterley Hall, in deepest East Anglia. Here’s why – Folk East.
The War Is Over, Phil Odgers & John Kettle – The Temperance, Leamington: Live Review
The War Is Over maybe but not for Phil Odgers & John Kettle who gather to celebrate the life and times of one Philip David Ochs.
Kris Drever – Doing This For Love: Album Review
Kris Drever, we love what you’re doing! A stellar opus, which, if drawn from a back drawer of despair, could well be the Orcadian’s best yet!