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ALBUM REVIEW: Arch Garrison – ‘The Bitter Lay’: a psychedelic folk song of the Wiltshire downs

ARCH GARRISON is, in some ways, the flipside of the coin to Craig Fortnam’s excellent, self-styled alternative chamber group North Sea Radio Orchestra. But it’d be wrong to think of…

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Track: Hen Ogledd release new track Crimson Star ahead of new album

Weird and wonky is how Hen Ogledd describe themselves but with the upcoming release of their fourth LP ‘Free Humans’ (released on 25th September via Weird World Records) the signs…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Sally Anne Morgan – ‘Thread’: homespun Appalachian warmth from Black Twig Pickers’ player

QUIETLY collaborating away in some of the finer, truest to tradition acts of the Americana movement such as the Black Twig Pickers, the time is now ripe for multi-instrumentalist Sally…

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NEWS: Spiers & Boden are back! Live stream tonight

NOW that’s a brilliant turn-up for the books as summer sadly wanes; Spiers & Boden, the folk duo of John and Jon who announced they were splitting up back in…

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Track: Emmy the Great reveals new single ‘Mary’

Following on from the news that Emmy the Great is to release her new album April / 月音 on October 9th via Bella Union, she has followed up recent single Dandelions / Liminal…

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Exclusive: Jordan Lehning records stunning At Home Session of Little Lie for Backseat Mafia

Nashville based producer, composer and singer-songwriter Jordan Lehning has done a wonderful lockdown At Home Sesssion for us of ‘Little Lie’, taken from his recent album Little Idols. The album…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Siv Jakobsen – ‘A Temporary Soothing’: fashioning a gem of folk delicacy from the lived experience

SIV JAKOBSEN, who grew up on the south-western edge of the wider Oslo conurbation, is a folk artist who is really is singing from the heart. Hailing from the fjordside…

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Album Review: SERA – When I Wake Up

Sera Zyborska, has written an 11-track album incorporating the best of folk, roots and Americana, to create a haunting work of creation. Working and writing with producer Andi Crutwell-Jones, the…

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Track: Callum Easter releases new song – Tell em Boy

Scottish singer-songwriter Callum Easter has followed up news of his new album – Green Door Sessions, out on 21st August on Moshi Moshi, with a new track taken from it…

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SEE: Adam Stafford – ‘Erotic Thistle’: a warm and confessional folk fingerpicking gem

FALKIRK’S Adam Stafford is one of them; he’s good at stuff. Grrr. He’s a multi-instrumentalist and film-maker, who necessarily has used the purdah of lockdown to create; for what else…

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