folk tracks
Track: Roly Witherow – Lord Franklin
despite being best known as a successful film and television composer, Roly Witherow has moved the goalposts for his first solo release and recorded an album of traditional folk tunes. The album, Ballads and Yarns is out now and from it he’s released his version of Lord Franklin, perhaps best known in its Pentangle version. …
Track: Meadow Meadow – Bonzo
Meadow Meadow are a collaborative project between Peter Darlington and James Green, split between Manchester and London. They’ve released their debut single Bonzo, via Practise Music. Peter says of the track Peter on the track: “Bonzo was the first song we wrote together that we felt captured the direction of where we wanted to go creatively. …
Track: Hayfitz – I want
Out on May 29th is the new album from NYC-based indie folk artist Hayfitz, Capsules, is released and ahead of that he’s shared a new single ‘I want’, taken from it that encapsulates the indie-folk sound of Jónsi, Jose Gonzales, Kings of Convenience and the like. Light and ethereal, I want takes you somewhere quiet …
Track: Bob Dylan – False Prophet
A release as surprising and enigmatic as the prior “I Contain Multitudes” and “Murder Most Foul”, “False Prophet” foreshadows Dylan’s “Rough and Rowdy Ways”. Although much is different across his three tracks of 2020, Dylan is reflective across the trio. Here though, he ponders with much gusto and “…last of the best” seems self-congratulatory in …
Track: Dylan John Thomas – Lost Without
Out now on Spotify and ITunes is the new single, ‘Lost Without’ from Scottish Singer-Songwriter, Dylan John Thomas. This is his third single, following his singles, ‘Nobody else’ and ‘Problems’. This talented Glaswegian fuses the style of many Singer-Songwriters, from Bob Dylan to Johnny Cash and beyond. ‘Lost Without’ is a showcase of both Dylan …
Track: Glenn Thomas – All you can do
Out now is the new single from singer-songwriter Glenn Thomas, ‘All you can do’, taken from his forthcoming album Reassure me there’s a window, out on May 15th via Palace Flophouse Records. All you can do has this sweeping haziness about it, with Thomas’s vocal creeping over the top of this indie-folk backing, with drips …
Track: Devendra Banhart – Swan
Devendra Banhart has released a song, ‘Swan’, with all proceeds going to the Los Angeles Women’s Center. It’s a cover of a song by Ioanna Gika, taken from last years solo debut album Thalassa. Swan is this beautiful folk pop melody, and Bandarts smooth, delicate baritone fingers it way over the picked guitar accompaniment. The …
Track: Findlay Brown – When I’m With You
Yorkshire-born, Copenhagen based singer-songwriter Findlay Brown has released a brand new single When I’m With You, his first new material since his 2018 album Not Everything Beautiful is Good. Swathed in strings and decorated with this acoustic guitar playing that could be straight out of Paul Simons songbook, Brown delivers this love song with his …
Track: Lavinia Blackwall – John’s Gone
Lavinia Blackwall, former lead singer of Glasgow psych-folk band Trembling Bells, has announced her debut solo album Muggington Lane Endisout on May 1st, and from it she’s released A new track, John’s Gone. Frankly, John’s Gone could be one of our favourite songs of the year. And it’s only March. It has this air of …
See: Modern Nature reveal new video/track, ‘Flourish’
“Flourish is like when my part of the world coming to life” says Jack Cooper of Modern Nature when talking about their new track, ”I live on the edge of London between Leytonstone and Epping Forest, so the signs of spring are very apparent round here – flowers, light, people talking in their gardens.” That …