Strawbs – The Broken Hearted Bride – 2021 Reissue: Album Review
Classic Strawbs re-form and hit the ground running! Esoteric Recordings release The Broken Hearted Bride.
Seth Lakeman – Make Your Mark: Album Review
Seth Lakeman releases his eleventh album. Make Your Mark is a set that might see him elevated to ‘folk music institution’ status.
The Ocean – Phanerozoic Live: Album Review
The Ocean take their ambitious work into the live arena. Phanerozoic Live captures them at their devastating best.
Danny Bryant – The Rage To Survive: Album Review
Gritty, hard-hitting no-holds-barred blues from UK bluesman Danny Bryant on his latest album, The Rage To Survive will lift those gloomy, autumn days.
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.
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.
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.
Old Blind Dogs – Knucklehead Circus: Album Review
The remarkable renaissance of this Scottish institution continues to enthral and amaze. Old Blind Dogs ascend the heights on Knucklehead Circus.
maybeshewill – No Feeling Is Final: Album Review
Maybeshewill return from a lengthy absence with an independently produced meisterwork.