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.
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss – Raise The Roof: Album Review
They’ve raised sand, now Robert Plant and Alison Krauss raise the roof in the most subtle fashion.
Mec Yek – Taisa: Album Review
Mec Yek present Taisa – Manic and maverick Roma ska-punk gypsy jazz from Belgium, without a violin in sight.
Fourth Moon – Odyssey: Album Review
Fourth Moon release album number two with Austrian, French, Scottish and Italian influences thrown into the pot.
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.