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Folk


EP: The delicately beautiful ‘Creatures of Habit’ from Brisbane artist Aren’t is an exquisite triumph. Plus news of launch date.

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Exclusive: Lucy Kruger records ‘A Stranger’s Chest’ live in session for Backseat Mafia

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Album Review : Adam Moezinia’s ‘ Folk Element Trio’ – A Sonic Travelogue

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It simply felt like a dream. That’s the only real way to describe Ichiko Aoba’s performance at the Sydney Opera House for VIVID LIVE. In the middle of a festival that thrives on sensory overload, Aoba offered us something slower and beautifully detached from the teeming cityscape outside. The Japanese artist had transformed the theatre …

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It’s been a good while since we’ve heard much from Peter Salett; with his most recent album Addicted to Distraction turning 15 in August, he’s mostly kept his head down since then when it comes to recorded music. That all changes in July when he releases not one, but two follow-ups simultaneously. The seeds of …

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Folk Bitch Trio

If there’s any justice in the algorithm or the universe, Folk Bitch Trio are destined to be the voice of a generation too smart to stay quiet.

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The poet laureate of the southern hemisphere Christopher Coleman & the Soft Knees Band collectively dispense heart rending lyricism over the most ethereal instrumentation in their new album ‘Live at the Chapel’, just released through Coleman’s label Oscar Treehouse Records. The combination of Coleman’s silken, yearning, aching vocals with the delicacy of the music and his …

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Ohio’s evolving alternative folk five-piece, Caamp, return to announce their first album in three years with the intimate and introspective new single ‘Drive’. The track’s sparse beauty gives fans a delicate introduction to ‘Copper Changes Colour’, their new 11-track album set for release on June 6th via Mom+Pop. Front man Taylor Meier describes the track as “a kind of a spirit song …

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Barry Hyde has always been an artist with an instinct for reinvention. As frontman of The Futureheads, his angular, harmony-laden punk propelled the band to prominence in the 2000s. But his latest project, Miner’s Ballads, is a stark departure—a deeply personal folk record commissioned by Sunderland Council, chronicling the region’s coal mining heritage. When we …

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Barry Hyde, best known as the frontman of The Futureheads, ventures into deeply personal and historical territory with Miners’ Ballads, released on his own Sirenspire Records. The album is a concept piece inspired by the coal mining heritage of Northeast England, particularly Sunderland and Washington. Commissioned by Sunderland City Council and Paul Emerson, the project …

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Maia Jelavic premiered her last single with us a few years back under the stage name Maia Marsh. She has made the decision to be true to herself and returned with another premiere under her birth name Maia Jelavic, and while the label might change, the imperial quality of her songwriting remains. We are therefore …

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A glorious night of singing, dancing, smiling, laughing and the pricking of people’s social conscience. Beans On Toast, aka Jay McAllister, has released an album every year for the last 16 years. Latest long player ‘Wild Goose Chasers’ is pared back – no guitar, just vocals and piano courtesy of Matt Millership (punky pianist Tensheds) …

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