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ALBUM REVIEW: M. Ward – ‘Think Of You’: Portland guitar wonder seduces with Billie Holiday set

M. Ward's pulled off quite a neat trick here. Think Of You has many of the appurtenances of a seasonal album without quite being one. It could be M. Ward's best album in a good while, proving that all he really needs is some retro recording equipment and a guitar to be at his very best

TRACK: Leif Vollebekk – ‘Long Blue Light’: beautiful alt.folk from Montreal

CANADA’S Leif Vollebekk is another excellent alt.folk singer-songwriter in a country that seems, these past few years, to produce them just for fun. Andy Shauf, Patrick Watson, Yves Jarvis, Sing…

SEE: Tele Novella – ‘Never’: a sweet song of loss and yearning with Super 8 footage

TEXAS TWOSOME Tele Novella, who memorably describe themselves on Twitter as “coin-operated medieval pop songs through a 1950s western lens” (and that’s totally on the money) have today released a…

SEE: MF Tomlinson – ‘Strange Time’: rising alt.folk talent announces debut album

MICHAEL TOMLINSON is the main man in the sorta-solo project MF Tomlinson, in which he plys a very neat line in indie folk/roots songcraft with a grainy bearhug of a…

Rising: We interview new indie-Americana duo Sunny Bones – see ‘Be Cool’

EXQUISITE new duo Sunny Bones is the partnership of Helen Anderson and Ben Asker. The pair came to know each other through their previous band Box Of Light, which past…

PREMIERE: Modern Hinterland – ‘California (August 16th 1998)’: some much-needed Americana sun

CHRIS HORNSBY’S Americana outfit Modern Hinterland are all set to release their new album, Diving Bell, on January 29th – almost a year to the day since their last, The…

ALBUM REVIEW: Anna McClellan – ‘I Saw First Light’

While this may be her third album, you get the feeling this is merely the tip of the iceberg and there is so much more in terms of potential and ability at her disposal

TRACK: Brooks Hudgins – ‘February’: fine ‘n’ free-associating Americana

BORN in Dallas, baptised in Tennessee, raised in LA, Brooks Hudgins had seen a lot of the States by an early age. It was also pretty early on that he…

SEE: Tele Novella – ‘Words That Stay’: another beautiful, quirky lament

VINTAGE shop owner Natalie Ribbons and rare record collector Jason Chronis had been kicking around in various musical projects in Austin, Texas, but knew they could fashion something pretty special when they…

Album Review: Young Jesus – ‘Welcome to Conceptual Beach’

Saddle Creek 's emo-jazz-rock band presents its most accomplished album, a spiritual journey driven by a swirl of enthralling riffs

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