Folk
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 …
Exclusive: Out of the Woods – I remember you (in session)
Ditte Grube, aka Out Of The Woods is a Danish singer-songwriter who is gearing up for the release of her debut album Birds and Beast, and has done of the the songs from the album exclusively for us her at Backseat Mafia, shot in and around her garden in Aarhus. She found music, or her …
Track: Shirley Collins – Wondrous Love, plus album news.
Shirley Collins is living history. A pioneer who has been exploring the possibilities of folk music right from its second surging UK revival in the 1950’s. Along the way she was a key player in Davy Graham’s mid 60’s jazz folk fusions and then with her sister Dolly, injected authenticity and traditional flavours into the …
See: Teddy Thompson – New tracks, New album, new tour
Amazingly it’s been 20 years since Teddy Thompson delivered his first album. Over the past two decades he’s been carefully honing his craft from folk tinged beginnings to his more recent country style, gradually seeking three- minute pop song perfection. As he admits himself, he is trying to trace that enduring line back to the …
Album Review: Erland Cooper – Hether Blether
I’ve never been to the Orkney Islands. In fact my only reference before this has been the other two of Erland Coopers albums about, and based on, the Islands where he lives. After an album about the birds that inhabit the island with Solan Goose, and the sea which surrounds the islands in Skule Skerry, …
See: Once & Future Band share video for Airplane
Taken from their recent Deleted Scenes album, Once & Future Band have released a new video for the track ‘Airplane’. Then track itself, is this prog-folk epic, that starts slowly, all guitar effects and wispy melodies, before it morphs into an almost jazzy middles section, the sheen of the Saxophone and guitar interplay nodding towards …
See: The Levellers release new video for Calling Out
The Levellers, the Brighton band, who for the last 30 years have been blending Folk, Rock and Punk with a large serving of pop sensibility and poignant lyrical themes, are back! They have a new single ‘Calling Out’, taken from their incoming album ‘Peace’ (Out 14th August) accompanied by a music video. The song is classic …
See: Sean Christopher releases new video for Indigo Blue
Dutch singer-songwriter Sean Christopher has returned for the follow up to his much lauded debut album ‘Yonder’, which dropped back in 2018. He’s just released a third single from its follow up ‘Wander’, out on May 29th, called ‘Indigo Blue’. Christopher describes the song, “‘Indigo Blue’ is a song about love and how love can …
Track: Keaton Henson – Career Day
An artist in many forms-illustrator, poet,T-shirt designer,composer and exceptional songwriter – Keaton Henson always brings a sense of devotion to his work. You can feel that dedication and care seeping through his newly released single ‘Career Day’ which is available now via ‘Play It Again Sam’. A song of reflection, sketched by Keaton’s rich guitar …
Track: Sergeant BuzFuz – Theresa McKee, plus new album news
Sheffield punk-folk stalwarts ‘Sergeant BuzFuz’ are gearing up to release a highly anticipated seventh album ‘Fox Pop’ on July 3rd via their DIY label Blang Records It’s been 5 years since the last Sergeant Buzfuz album, 2015’s ‘Balloons For Thin Linda’. Band leader Joe Murphy has lost both parents, got married, been a victim of a smear campaign (as a whistleblowing …