Breabach – Gathering Ground: Album Review
Breaking new ground and terra firma alike, Breabach are back with a beauty.
Richard Thompson – Hippies, Thugs and Heroes: Album Review
Richard Thompson – ‘The finest rock songwriter since Dylan and the best electric guitarist since Hendrix’ – is back with an album that sits high in the canon.
Merry Hell – Victoria Hall, Settle: Live Music
Settle’s Victoria Hall bears witness to Merry Hell’s best gig? Quite possibly!
Mariecke Borger – Unravel: Album Review
Mariecke Borger takes prompts from Joni Mitchell and James Taylor to fashion ten personal and wonderfully intimate songs for her third album, Unravel.
Jim Ghedi – The Death Of Robin Hood (O.S.T.): Album Review
Both film music and folk turn a corner into Jim Ghedi’s deep, dark Judderman dynamic, each all the better for that exposure.
Chasing Abbey – Cyber Celt: Album Review
Blunt and powerful, Chasing Abbey snatch the tail of the Celtic Tiger, wrestling it into submission.
The Proclaimers – You May Offend: Album Review
40 years since their debut album The Proclaimers refuse to rest on their laurels and are still writing creative, poignant songs.
Fine Lines – Coming Home: Album Review
With no nasty knots to untie, Fine Lines join all the dots, for a perfect spread of country and north-western.
Toby Shaer – Amalgam: Album Review
Debut album from in-demand multi-instrumentalist Toby Shaer. Amalgam is the culmination of over 15 years of writing and collecting melodies.
Chelsea Wolfe – The Dark: Album Review
Heavy music’s patron saint of the beautifully bleak, Chelsea Wolfe, releases The Dark.
Dom Malin – Echoes Of Light: EP Review
The debut EP from Dom Malin explores identity, loss, and self-doubt, before offering warmth, hope, and connection.
Fen – Elemental Part One: Mourning Earth: Album Review
Fen are back with their eighth album, Elemental (Part I: Mourning Earth), via Prophecy Productions.
Fairport’s Cropredy Convention 2026 – Day One: Live Review
Day One of Fairport’s Cropredy 2026 is an absolute scorcher both on the stage and off! Temperatures rocket as we achieve lift off for the 2026 event.
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.
The Lost Notes – Live at Birmingham Symphony Hall: Album Review
The long-awaited live album from Birmingham’s Americana specialists, The Lost Notes, is a triumph in every respect. Wish you’d been there? Listen to Live at Birmingham Symphony Hall and you’ll really believe that you were!