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Track: Sergeant BuzFuz – Theresa McKee, plus new album news

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Track: Damien Jurado – Over rainbows and Rainier, plsu album / tour dates

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EP Review: Spirit of Play – Apocalypse EP

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Weird and wonky is how Hen Ogledd describe themselves but with the upcoming release of their fourth LP ‘Free Humans’ (released on 25th September via Weird World Records) the signs are the band are finding some focus in their otherworld. Originally the brainchild of folk experimentalist/indie anti-hero Richard Dawson and avant harpist Rhodri Davies, the …

Following on from the news that Emmy the Great is to release her new album April / 月音 on October 9th via Bella Union, she has followed up recent single Dandelions / Liminal with a new track, Mary. Of the track Emmy says: “Mary is named for a Hong Kong fortune teller I met in Kowloon, who gave me the wrong fortune …

Scottish singer-songwriter Callum Easter has followed up news of his new album – Green Door Sessions, out on 21st August on Moshi Moshi, with a new track taken from it ‘Tell em Boy’. Of the process the album took, Easter says  “The premise was to record the versions of the songs I’d been performing live …

Out on September 18th is Makeshift Future, the debut album from Toronto folk band Decoration Day and from it the band has released a new single, Sadness in Disguise.  “I began writing Sadness in Disguise during a period of depression, and finished it in the midst of deep grief for a loved one dying,” explains multi-instrumentalist Tiffany Wu. “During …

Two of Blues / Folk / Americana’s standouts, Ben Harper and Rhiannon Giddens have collaborated together for the first time on their own version of Nick Drake’s ‘Black Eyed Dog’. “Rhiannon and I are both black purveyors of American roots music, and while this is not an anomaly, it is an exception within a subculture,” …

Daniel Blumberg’s 2018 release ‘Minus’ never drew the recognition it deserved. A profound record of late Scott Walkeresque scale with songs balanced on an improvisational high wire, it was a massive leap from the indie noise gaze of his former bands Cajun Dance Party and Yuck. Now Blumberg is offering the next instalment of his …

Taken from their forthcoming debut album Makeshift Future, Toronto folk band Decoration Day have released a new single, Lanark County. It’s described by guitarist and songwriter Justin Orok as a vision song.  “It follows a kind of surreal dream logic,” says Justin. “The imagery comes out of this just-below-the-surface hostility I would feel when visiting idyllic …

Taken from her forthcoming ‘The Joys of Forgetting’ album, out on August 7th via Northern Spy Records is ‘Welcome’, the new single from Brooklyn singer-songwriter Allegra Kreiger. If the track, Krieger explains: “Welcome is about opening your life up to someone and letting defenses down. Learning to live with & love them through good & bad.”  Rustic and …

Signing to California based Wiretap Records recently, Catholic Guilt have now upped their street cred and are set to be one to watch for the end of 2020 and into 2021. Their new EP ‘This is What Honesty Sounds Like’ will be out this August through Wiretap, and will herald a world beating partnership. With …

Sometime lead singer / writer of Woahnows, Immy, has released new video of his track ‘Anyone, Anywhere’. The Bristol musician had first donated the track to his label Breakfast Records compilation record which was to raise money for his hometown charity Caring In Bristol, but now he’s made a video with housemate Jonathan Minto of …