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Album Review: Maple Glider’s ‘To Enjoy is the Only Thing’ is a breathtaking debut filled with an exquisite sense of longing and beauty

Maple Glider – the moniker of Melbourne resident Tori Zietsch – has a voice and delivery that is like someone whispering softly in your ear: it’s close and warm and…

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Rising: Meet La Bonte, and watch his new video for Don’t Let This Define Me

Ahead of the debut album under the moniker La Bonte, Don’t Let This Define Me, comes a single of the same name from the Southern Californian troubadour Garrett La Bonte,…

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Album review: Fuzzy Lights – ‘Burials’: Cambridge psych-folk prodigals grow a faerie ring of psych-folk, post-rock and more to lay your troubled bones within

IT’S BEEN all of eight years now since Cambridgeshire post-folk collective Fuzzy Lights have graced our ears with an album, that being Rule Of Twelfths; but the planets have aligned…

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Meet: Voye talks about the new single, the beautifully evocative ‘Paint’ featuring Matilda Duncan

Hailing from Townsville in far north Queensland, Voye‘s new single ‘Paint’, featuring singer Matilda Duncan, is imbued with a reflective and sunlit tropical sheen. Yearning, harmonising vocals and rippling soft…

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Meet: Northern Irish folk singer songwriter Joshua Burnside; listen to new track with Laura Quirke

With a new EP with Laura Quirke due July and a UK tour coming November we caught up with Joshua Burnside to find out how he has survived lockdown, playing…

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See: Montreal singer-songwriter Geoffroy arrows to the heart of you with ‘Cold World’

GEOFFROY is a Quebecois singer-songwriter, surname elsewhere Sauvé, who has a brace of lush EPs and a similar number of albums under his belt for Bonsound. He’s one of those…

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See: The esoteric psilocybin dream of Fuzzy Lights’ ‘Sirens’: fine fenland acid folk preludes next week’s new album

A HIATUS of eight years hasn’t dimmed Fuzzy Lights as mysterious musical force, not one bit; quite the opposite, in fact. They’ve a new album, Burials, out at the end…

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Exclusive: Scott Matthews records Wait in the Car live in session for Backseat Mafia

Singer-songwriter Scott Matthews is the latest to join us for our At Home Sessions with this acoustic performance of Wait In The Car. Matthews shows off his impressive vocal range…

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See: Alasdair Roberts gathers us round for a solo rendition of ‘Orison Of Union’, from next month’s album for Drag City

SERENDIPITY is such a lovely thing to encounter, especially when it leads to a joining of courses and like minds finding each other. Responding to the invitation of Norwegian fiddler Hans…

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Track: Cameron Knowler – ‘Lena’s Spanish Fandango’: a tender and plaintive Americana air

TEXAN solo guitar practitioner and melodicist Cameron Knowler – whose lovely, exploratory album with Eli Winter, Anticipation, we fully embraced in early March – has announced he’s to unveil his…

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