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TRACK: Panteon – ‘Waking Waiting’: lighter-than-air alt.folk explores the void at the end of the affair

YVONNE AMBRÉE is an artist currently based in Berlin who writes, records and produces music under the nom-de-musique Panteon. She has a particular way with an airy, fragile folk melody…

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PREMIERE: Ted Barnes and Sarah Johns Music Party – ‘Arrangements’: theatrical delicacy from returning Clayhill prodigal

YOU MAY or may not have been blessed enough to have swooned for Clayhill, the cruelly underrated trio who got lumped into the semi-trendy genre ‘The New Acoustic’ by the…

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EP Review: Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou – The Helm of Sorrow

Dark folk singer’s collaboration with Louisiana sludge metallers bears yet more fruit.

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Lizzie Reid – ‘Been Thinking About You’: jazzy swing with real heart, soul and devil-may-care

LIZZIE REID, the young Glaswegian songwriter who is a massive, massive new talent – no dissent now at the back, this is just how it is – has been melting…

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SEE: Cassandra Jenkins – ‘Michelangelo’: subtle, haunting Americana

NEW YORK folkie Cassandra Jenkins has stepped away from the world of self-releasing on her own Cassandra Complex imprint to ink her signature for Brooklyn’s Ba Da Bing, which imprint…

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SEE: John Smith – ‘Friends’: honey-voiced folk salutes those dear to us

A SIMPLE name, perhaps, but far from simple tunesmithery: John Smith is coming into 2021 with positivity and a grab-bag of songs to beguile you. Essex born but raised on…

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SEE: The Stockholm video for James Yorkston and the Second Hand Orchestra’s ‘Ella Mary Leather’

AS THE year takes it final bows – mostly, you’d have to say, free from the tossing of bouquets, unless they’re dead black roses or somesuch – we at least…

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Track: Another Michael reveal the beautiful indie folk of ‘I know you’re wrong’

Philadelphia indie folk three piece Another Michael have announced details of their new album ‘New Music and Big Pop’. It’s due out on 19th February via Run For Cover records,…

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TRACK: Zola Jesus beautifully refashions the Armenian folk standard, ‘Krunk’

ZOLA JESUS has gone back to her roots with a beautiful and deep take on the Armenian folk standard, “Krunk”; be enraptured by our embed herein. The track was originally…

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News: Lanterns on the Lake announce live dates, plus rescheduled release

“One for the introverts and dreamers, the ones that still find beauty and magic in things” Now, technically speaking, we at Backseat Mafia have already previewed this back in October,…

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