folk tracks
Track: Iron & Wine – Anyone’s Game
Iron & Wine has shared his third single from its forthcoming album ‘Light Verse’, entitled ‘Anyone’s Game’, along with an accompanying stop-motion-styled animated visual directed by Callum Scott-Dyson. The video’s playful nature has an almost Monty Python intro style; Scott-Dyson in explaining his process for the video says: “I used card cutouts in terms of the stop motion …
Track: Goblin Band – Widecombe Fair
Along with announcing their debut EP ‘Come Slack Your Horse!’ which is due on the 1st of May via Broadside Hacks Recordings (The New Eves, Milkweed) London Queer Folk Sextet Goblin Band have also shared their new single ‘Widecombe Fair’. Set in a Devon Village which still holds fairs to this day, ‘Widecombe Fair’ bustles …
Track: 9T Antiope – Mount 22
9T Antiope is a Paris-based Iranian duo made up of Nima Aghiani and Sara Bigdeli Shamloo. They have shared their new track ‘Mount 22’, a rhythmic and hypnotic track from their forthcoming album, ‘Horror Vacui’, which is set for release on the 12th of April via American Dreams. Expanding on this further, Aghiani and Shamloo offer: “Spaces and objects might …
Track: Iron & Wine – All in Good Time
Following the release of the first single ‘You Never Know‘, Iron & Wine has shared another track from his upcoming seventh full-length album ‘Light Verse’ due out on 26th April via Sub Pop. ‘All in Good Time’ is a glorious new song in which Fiona Apple lends her voice, written by Sam Beam in the vein of classic call-and-response style duets made …
Track: Amigo The Devil – Stray Dog
With his third album out now, ‘Yours Until The War Is Over, Amigo The Devil has shared the lyric video for the track ‘Stray Dog’ which is taken from the album. In true ATD style ‘Stray Dog’ is on the surface a witty jaunty track led by distorted chords and simple percussion. However, when you …
Track: Goblin Band – The Prickle Holly Bush
Newcomers on the thriving UK folk circuit, Goblin Band are a collection of queer, musicians based around Hobgoblin Music, a folk-instrument shop located in central London. Inspired as much by medieval and early music, as they are by the folk traditions of Britain and abroad, the six-piece set their stall on re-energising timeless, much-journeyed songs for an …
Track: Lair – Setan Dolbon
With their new album ‘Ngélar’ out now via Guruguru Brain, Indonesian collective Lair have shared the second track from the album with an accompanying video, ‘Setan Dolbon’. They have also been confirmed to play at this year’s SXSW. Tha band comments: “Originating from a true story around the year 2013 in a village in Jatiwangi, a troubling phenomenon occurred that instilled fear, suspicion, …
Track: Amigo The Devil – Once Upon A Time At Texaco Pt. 1
Singer-songwriter Amigo The Devil (aka Danny Kiranos) has shared the single entitled ‘Once Upon A Time At Texaco Pt 1’, the third to be lifted from his upcoming new studio album, ‘Yours Until The War Is Over’. Echoing the timbre of a raucous bar chant, ‘Once Upon A Time At Texaco Pt. 1’ sees ATD relate a …
Track: Iron & Wine – You Never Know
Sam Beam, singer-songwriter behind Iron & Wine is set to release his seventh full-length album, ‘Light Verse’ via Sub Pop. The ten-track collection was produced by Beam himself and mixed and engineered by Dave Way at Waystation and Silent Zoo Studios in Los Angeles. Joining were Tyler Chester (keyboards), Sebastian Steinberg (bass), David Garza (guitar), Griffin Goldsmith, Beth Goodfellow, …
Track: Indonesian Soul/Funk Collective, Lair, Share New Single ‘Tatalu’
Lair (pronounced “lah-eer,” a local dialect for the Indonesian word of ‘lahir’, meaning ‘birth’ or, roughly ‘being born’) is a Panturan-soul/funk outfit hailing from Jatiwangi, West Java, Indonesia. They are set to release their new album titled ‘Ngélar’ on the 23rd of February via Guruguru Brain. The first track from the record, “Tatalu” is online today. Groove laden, guitar led brilliance from Indonesia …