Folk
SEE: Siv Jakobsen’s ‘Anywhere Else’ is a fragile folk arrow to your chest
RISING Norwegian folk artist Siv Jakobsen has a voice that is at once sibilant and honeyed, yet so, so fragile. And in a recent Instagram post, she confessed that her current single, “Anywhere Else”, the video for which you can watch below, has a real fragility of experience at its core. She said: “I wasn’t …
TRACK: Red River Dialect frontman shares ‘Ballad of Ross Wyld’
DAVID MORRIS, proud Falmothian and singer with Red River Dialect – the six-piece who’ve brought us some of the most vital of British folk-rock over the past decade – has shared a solo sketch. Described by David as “a lockdown love letter to my housemates”, “The Ballad of Ross Wyld” strips back the layered instrumentation …
SEE: Sally Anne Morgan spins fine Appalachian Thread for Thrill Jockey
STEPPING out on her own after underpinning the work of acclaimed fellow travellers such as Appalachian purists The Black Twig Pickers, it’s time for Sally Anne Morgan to take a little of the limelight. She has released “Thread Song” ahead of her debut full-length set, Thread, for Chicago’s eclectic and rather cool Thrill Jockey imprint, …
SEE: unsettling Aberdeenshire folk noir from Fair Mothers
A TREMULOUS, held guitar note, fed through fuzz and vibrato, with the raw quality of a wire fence shuddering in the wind; a darkly delicate piano arpeggio, as if remembered from the end of sleep. The tune has the quality of a haunted fairground under brooding skies. And so we’re into the dark world of …
See: Woahnows frontman Immy reveals new video for Anyone, Anywhere
Sometime lead singer / writer of Woahnows, Immy, has released new video of his track ‘Anyone, Anywhere’. The Bristol musician had first donated the track to his label Breakfast Records compilation record which was to raise money for his hometown charity Caring In Bristol, but now he’s made a video with housemate Jonathan Minto of …
Track: Riun Garner – Fabric
Out right now is Fabric, the new single from Canadian singer-songwriter Riun Garner. It’s the follow up to his much lauded debut single Trouble that saw him gain not just the interest of music fans, but of the organisers of the 2020 Canadian Songwriter Challenge, who promptly signed him up. Of the song, Garner says …
SEE: Appendix back in: Alasdair Roberts revisits his roots
ACROSS a trio of albums for Drag City leading into the 21st century – The Rye Bears A Poison, Daylight SavIng and The Night Is Advancing, Callander’s Appendix Out made some of the gentlest, most spellbinding alt.folk you’ll ever have the pleasure of tipping into your ears. After the release of The Night Is Advancing …
Meet: Scottish singer-songwriter Dylan John Thomas
We were very much taken with Glaswegian singer-songwriter Dylan John Thomas’ recent Lost Without single, and after reading that he’s been taken on tour as support for both Liam Gallagher and Gerry Cinnamon, and becoming the quickest Scottish artist to sell-out his debut show at the revered King Tuts venue, we felt like we needed …
ALBUM REVIEW: Out of the Woods – Birds and Beasts
Ditte Grube, otherwise known as ‘Out of the Woods’, releases her debut album ‘Birds and Beasts’ on 12 June, 2020. The Danish artist recently did an ‘At Home’ session for us ahead of the album release, performing beautiful album track ‘I Remember You’. The album was recorded at Grube’s home studio in the woods of …
Track: Skullcrusher – Don’t Show
You must be thinking is it thrash, doom or drone? None of these – Skullcrusher is the project of LA based songwriter Helen Ballentine who makes rich acoustic sounds that lean in the new folk direction. Having shifted from an art college/gallery pathway to focus all her creative energy on music, Ballentine seems to have …