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ALBUM REVIEW: Julien Baker – Little Oblivions

  • February 19, 2021
  • Taylor Duffy
Memphis-born Julien Baker returns with her haunting, ballad-filled 3rd studio album, that you would have to be oblivious to not be enamoured with.  In her first solo album since Turn…
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Track: Brooks Williams, Findlay Napier, Boo Hewerdine and Kris Drever – ‘Farewell To Gold’: cult singers in quartet for a dream made reality

  • February 19, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
IT’S PRETTY much a cult, folky singer-songwriting dream; despite the lockdown and the all of it, that Cambridge Americana adept Brooks Williams, former The Bible! man Boo Hewerdine, Scotland’s Findlay…
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Track: Bill MacKay and Nathan Bowles – ‘I See God’: that old time religion beautifully recast for guitar and banjo

  • February 18, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
KEYS, the soon-come long-playing conversation between Chicago’s Bill MacKay on guitar and North Carolina’s Nathan Bowles at the banjo, ranges back and forth across the great bluegrass and guitar soli…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Indigo Sparke – ‘echo’: a jaw-dropping country-folk debut

  • February 15, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
You can hear Indigo's very essence shot right through echo. It's never less, at any point, than extremely lovely; at many points its genuinely bloody stunning. You know when someone has that alchemical it, and boy: Indigo incontrovertibly does. It's not an album to have on in the background, because it's far too arresting and enveloping, commanding. She's royalty in waiting on the leftfield folk scene. Astonishing; buy
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News: Nic Dalton reissues brilliant and vibrant solo album Romolo for the first time in limited edition vinyl

  • February 15, 2021
  • Arun Kendall
There was a while when the capital of Australia – Canberra of course – punched way above its weight in terms of music – legendary bands like The Church, The…
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Peggy Seeger - The Invisible Woman
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News: Folk legend Peggy Seeger announces new album, tour and single

  • February 7, 2021
  • Mark Gannon
‘Legend’ is a term often bandied about a little too loosely, but in the case of Peggy Seeger, it is a justified and well-earned description. Seeger has been a pivotal…
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SEE: Raine Hamilton – ‘Brave Land’: gorgeous chamber bluegrass tune launches new album; live-streamed show tonight

  • February 5, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
RAINE HAMILTON, the chamber-folk artist from Winnipeg, Manitoba, grew up in musical family and learned her chops early; in fact, her parents met in a rock band in the 1970s…
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Premiere: Meril Wubslin release the melancholy indie-folk of C’est Faux

  • February 4, 2021
  • Jim F
Out on Friday via Geneva label Bongo Joe Records is the new album from Meril Wubslin, Alors quoi. They’re the brainchild of Swiss indie royalty, Velma guitarist-songwriter Christian Garcia-Gaucher and…
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EP REVIEW: Lizzie Reid – ‘Cubicle’: cathartic beauty from young Glaswegian

  • February 4, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
Lizzie Reid's Cubicle is a properly excellent debut from the young Glaswegian, with moments of real cathartic beauty
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NEWS: Matthew E. White and Lonnie Holley announce avant-garde folk album; hear ‘This Here Jungle of Moderness/Composition 14’

  • February 2, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
THEY may at first somewhat unlikely bedfellows: Matthew E. White, who arrived back in 2011 with his debut album The Big Inner, seemingly a fully formed gentleman of classic Southern…
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