Megan Henderson – Pilgrim Souls: Album Review
Top notch chamber folk from Breabach singer and fiddle player, Megan Henderson, sets itself ahead of the pack.
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Adam Ross – Staring At Mountains: Album Review
Staring At Mountain – a delightful stripped back leap forward for Randolph’s Leap frontman Adam Ross.
Punch Brothers – Hell On Church Street: Album Review
Largely exquisite tribute/cover to Tony Rice’s Church Street Blues, his 1983 bluegrass masterclass from Punch Brothers.
Niteworks – A’ Ghrian: Album Review
Vibrant new music from Niteworks, Skye’s masters of Gaelictronica.
Spell Songs – Spell Songs II, Let The Light In: Album Review
A consummate celebration of nature, a marriage of words, music and illustration, bringing back together an A team of performers to reprise the unrepriseable in Spell Songs II.
Jack O’Rourke – Wild Place: Album Review
Jack O’Rourke is a hidden gem from Ireland, awaiting to capture your ears and imagination. Stellar songwriting with a voice to live for.
Amy Duncan – Cocoon: Album Review
Haunting and spare, with a busy minimalism that beguiles, this indubitably lock-down project from Amy Duncan begs for attention.
Freedom To Roam – The Rhythms Of Migration: Album Review
Freedom To Roam presents a widescreen soundscape encompassing folk, world and classical atmospheres covers most bases.
Mec Yek – Taisa: Album Review
Mec Yek present Taisa – Manic and maverick Roma ska-punk gypsy jazz from Belgium, without a violin in sight.
Malcolm MacWatt – Settler: Album Review
Like bringing the coals back to Newcastle, MacWatt rediscovers the Scottish tradition through an Appalachian translation.
Mark Pontin Group – Kaleidoscope: Album Review
Inventive blues roots, shone through any number of stylistic prisms, showing light, dark and a lot of promise. That’s the Mark Pontin Group.
Devin Hoff – Voices From the Empty Moor (Songs of Anne Briggs): Album Review
Devin Hoff on largely instrumental revisions of a largely trad. arr. folk canon that surprise and subvert.
Alan Tyler – Made In Middlesex: Album Review
The Mockingbird rooster, Alan Tyler, retreats to a quirky lockdown project, nearly free of his characteristic country vibe.
Isla Ratcliff – The Castalia: Album Review
A refreshingly lively new take on trad. from Isla Ratcliff. Cape Breton influences abound and reinvigorate.
Danielle Lewis – Dreaming In Slow Motion: Album Review
Languid and dreamy electronica infused chamber folk from the West Coast of Wales via Danielle Lewis.