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Tracks: Ring in the shortest day with the fine English folk of Craig Fortnam’s ‘Witchy Grid’/’God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen’

  • December 21, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
IT’S BEEN a productive and busy year all round for Craig Fortnam, the man known best perhaps for his role in the English contemporary music ensemble, North Sea Radio Orchestra;…
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Album review: E.R. Jurken – ‘I Stand Corrected’: a psych-folk debut full of catharsis and melody

  • April 19, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
E.R. Jurken's first full missive into the world reveals quite the saddest tale at an angle, never telling, always hinting. It also shows an absolute grasp of songcraft, of melody, and an abiding love of British psych-pop and later American geniuses such as Neutral Milk Hotel and Elliott Smith
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SEE: The fairytale stop-motion video for Renée Reed’s graceful, mysterious ‘I Saw A Ghost’

  • March 25, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
WITH her stunning, graceful, mysterious debut album out tomorrow on Keeled Scales, Louisianan folk riser musician Renée Reed has dropped a fourth and final single to usher you into the scented finery…
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News: Chloe Foy announces her long-awaited debut album; let her hush you with ‘Shining Star’

  • March 23, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
CHLOE FOY, the Gloucestershire singer-songwriter with a knack for a soul-baring lyric all wrapped in a sweet melodic glide, has announced that her debut album, Where Shall We Begin, will…
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See: The lyric video for the tumbling odd-folk of Yves Jarvis’ ‘Body Of Work’

  • March 19, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
YVES JARVIS is the artist and autodidact Jean-Sébastien Audet who, in a pseudo-Bill Callahanesque move, came out from behind his Un Blonde facemask after 2016’s excellent Good Will Come To You (according…
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Track: Renée Reed – ‘Neboj’: mysterious verdancy from rising Louisiana folk chanteuse

  • March 9, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
WE’RE just a fortnight, a little more, away from the release of Renée Reed’s self-titled debut album, one on which she reveals a mysterious, perfumed songwriting aesthetic, steeped in the…
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See: Jordan Klassen – ‘Golden Ladder’: hushed Canadian alt.folk songcraft

  • March 6, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
VANCOUVER’S self-styled fairy-folk singer-songwriter Jordan Klassen released an album, Tell Me What to Do, last May, which he hopes connects people organically, drawing upon their shared experiences lyrically and conceptually;…
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Track: Panteon – ‘Nobody’: electric folk lushness from Berlin

  • March 5, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
CURRENTLY based in Berlin, singer-songwriter Yvonne Ambrée writes, records and produces all of her music under the guise of Panteon. She’s gradually unveiling her forthcoming debut album with a string…
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Track: Sunflower Thieves -‘Don’t Mind The Weather’: a soothing, electronic folk paean to your safe space

  • March 4, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
AMY ILLINGWORTH and Lily Stury-Bolshaw, the Leeds-based musicians who fashion fine music together as Sunflower Thieves, have shared their new single “Don’t Mind The Weather”, ahead of its release as…
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Track: Chloe Foy – ‘Left-Centred Weight’: luscious, hook-laden folk to welcome spring

  • February 23, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
AS 2021 stretches and tentatively decides to dangle an experimental leg out of bed you, like me, will be looking round for the first buds and flowers of spring; new…
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