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.
Me And That Man – New Man, New Songs, Same Shit, Vol.2: Album Review
Behemoth’s Nergal emerges in the guise of Me And That Man in the follow up to the Vol. 1 album of the same name.
Swallow The Sun – Moonflowers : Album Review
Swallow the Sun release a new studio album, that marks another impressive step forward in the band’s composition and performance abilities.
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.
Lewis Barfoot – Glenaphuca: Album Review
A folk prayer to the ancestors. Â A stunning debut from Lewis Barfoot.
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.
Hannah James & Toby Kuhn – Sleeping Spirals: Album Review
Hannah James and Toby Kuhn collaborate on a blend of English Folk and European melodies.
Marillion – Bridgewater Hall, Manchester: Live Review
Marillion give another outstanding Manchester perfromance
Mark Pontin Group / Five Points Gang – Manchester Retro Bar: Live Review
The Mark Pontin Group and Five Point Gang deliver masterful and contrasting blues sets in Manchester…miss this tour at your peril.
Isla Ratcliff – The Castalia: Album Review
A refreshingly lively new take on trad. from Isla Ratcliff. Cape Breton influences abound and reinvigorate.
Mark Pontin Group – Everything (Tomorrow): Video Premiere
We have another treat from Lunaria Records l in the form of the new single from the Mark Pontin Group. New album, Kaleidoscope, is released 26th November.
Seth Lakeman – Stoller Hall, Manchester: Live Review
Seth Lakeman and his band celebrate fifteen years of Freedom Fields and mark the new album in Manchester.
Zappa Records releases 6-disc Golden Anniversary deluxe edition of 200 Motels: News
News of an expansive reissue of the Frank Zappa 200 Motels album. Frankly – indispensable for Frank Zappa fans.
Danielle Lewis – Dreaming In Slow Motion: Album Review
Languid and dreamy electronica infused chamber folk from the West Coast of Wales via Danielle Lewis.
Animals Reimagined: A Tribute to Pink Floyd
A collection of prog and art rock virtuosos collaborate to recreate and reimagine the 1977 Pink Floyd album, Animals.