folk tracks
Track: Lea Thomas – The Gift
Hawaii native based in New York, songwriter Lea Thomas is set to release her new album ‘Cosmos Forever’ on the 20th of September Via Triple Dolphin Records. In anticipation, Thomas has shared the video for the first single titled ‘The Gift’. Thomas comments: From the moment I wrote the opening line of The Gift, I knew …
Track: Fink – One Last Gift
With two singles already out there, ‘What Would You Call Yourself‘ and ‘So We Find Ourselves’, Fink have shared the third single, ‘One Last Gift’, to be taken from their eighth studio album ‘Beauty In Your Wake’. Greenall says: “I sang into the hole of my nylon guitar through my effects to get this kindaThom …
Track: Van Zon – Cannon Fodder
Forming just last June, Van Zon have quickly cemented their presence in the Brighton and London grassroots gig circuits, selling out their first headline show at Brighton’s Green Door Store merely five months into their existence. Their debut track has arrived a startling 8-minute epic of experimental folk-tinged post-rock. Executed with the intention of being …
Track: James Vincent McMorrow releases the staggeringly beautiful Call Me Back
“Call Me Back.” is the new single from Irish singer-songwriter James Vincent McMorrow, a folk-flecked affair with a tapestry of beautiful melodies woven together with McMorrow’s signature falsetto vocals that will have your heartstrings quivering and your soul yearning. Listening to “Call Me Back” feels like wrapping yourself in a comfort blanket of gentle guitar …
Track: Fink – So We Find Ourselves
Having announced their eighth studio album ‘Beauty In your Wake‘ with the sublime single ‘What Would You Call Yourself‘, Fin Greenall and his cohorts Tim Thornton (drums/guitar) and Guy Whittaker (bass) have returned with single number two titled ‘So We Find Ourselves’. Greenall reflects on the song by saying: “This song is so personal. I am the first …
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 …