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TRACK: Renée Reed – ‘Où est la fée’: a mystical tale from the Louisiana backwoods

  • February 16, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
HAILING from Lafayette, Louisiana, Renée Reed has followed up her excellent first single, “Fast One”, with a French language track, “Où est la fée” today. It’s the first song she’s released in French, reflecting…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Indigo Sparke – ‘echo’: a jaw-dropping country-folk debut

  • February 15, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
You can hear Indigo's very essence shot right through echo. It's never less, at any point, than extremely lovely; at many points its genuinely bloody stunning. You know when someone has that alchemical it, and boy: Indigo incontrovertibly does. It's not an album to have on in the background, because it's far too arresting and enveloping, commanding. She's royalty in waiting on the leftfield folk scene. Astonishing; buy
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TRACK: Pictish Trail – ‘Dream Wall’: hushed loveliness from the dream state

  • February 8, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
JOHNNY LYNCH who, besides running the dependably excellent Lost Map Records (which, being based, for most of us, up there on the Hebridean island of Eigg, isn’t lost from the…
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SEE: M. Ward drops a video for ‘Violets And Furs’ from his Billie Holiday covers set

  • February 6, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
PORTLAND’S muchly the finest, M. Ward, has just released a video for the bloody beautiful “Violets For Your Furs”, his whisper-swoonsome take on a Billie Holiday song from his recent full album…
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SEE: Sophie Morgan – ‘Always’: a sweet song for the lonely

  • February 4, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
A SOLE trumpeter plays a lonely air on the riverside terrace, and is joined by a dashingly besuited fellow, stage left, maybe a little bit Gatsby; we glimpse Sophie in…
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SEE: Davey Woodward & The Winter Orphans – ‘Bad Day’ cornering a brilliantly thrashy alt.pop nugget

  • February 3, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
FORMER Brilliant Corners singer Davey Woodward is fashioning rather lovely, lo-fi, alt.folk indiepop these days, along with The Winter Orphans – a quintet rescued from the chill winds atop Spaniorum…
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TRACK: Sara Wolff – ‘Bad Thoughts Compilation’ – welcome to Sara’s homespun folk-pop world

  • February 3, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
SHE LEFT the big, big vistas of her native Bergen, Norway, and relocated to Liverpool in order to study; found she really liked it by the Mersey, decided to stick…
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PREMIERE: Fish and Scale – ‘You Can Call Me LOVE’: swoon for a folk troubadour’s embrace

  • January 28, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
HAILING from Franconia, in southern Germany, Roland Wälzlein is on a mission to bring us glowing, stirring folk as Fish and Scales – and we’re premiering his first, rather groovy…
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SEE: Indigo Sparke – ‘Everything Everything’: astonishing spectral folk

  • January 26, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
IF MARISSA NADLER, Aldous Harding, Joanna Newsom, Vashti Bunyan light up your world with otherworldly folk fire – and if they don’t, then maybe we can’t be friends after all…
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TRACKS: Clémentine March – ‘Into The Distance’/’Éternité’

  • January 22, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
AN ECLECTIC, alt.folk(ish) singer-songwriter with a lovely, raggedy edge to her song fashioning, French-born but London based Clémentine March is close to a perfect match for Johnny Lynch’s Lost Map…
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