Folk
EP Review: Dana Gavanski – ‘Wind Songs’: covers remoulded, lauded, brought into the light
MORPHIC resonance is one of those curious little theories out on the borders of the scientifically credible that nevertheless contain intriguing possibilities. Simply put, it states that once something enters the realms of the possible and probable, it’s infinitely more likely for that idea to begin occurring elsewhere; an illustration is that when comes time …
ALBUM REVIEW: Jeremy Tuplin – ‘Violet Waves’: velvety psych-folk for the discerning gent about town
HUSH up at the back there. Yes, I know you have a deep ennui at the way this virus-laden summer is developing. It’s not great, I agree. And on top of it all, we even suffered Glastonbury weather through June. No, we can’t go get ice cream. We still have music. Glorious, bewitching, mind-expanding music. …
TRACK: Such Small Hands release new single, ‘Do I Belong Here?’
WEDDING PRESENT bassist Melanie Howard, aka Such Small Hands, who blends dark pop with twinges of quirky folk and electronica, has released new single “Do I Belong Here?” The single precedes her new album Carousel, which is due to be released on September 18th via Such Small Records. Having initially released a series of lo-fi …
Premiere: Polyhymns release the beautiful alt-folk of ‘JK’
Sheffield trio Polyhymns are gearing up for the release of their debut EP ‘Hybrid Sunday’, available on Limited Edition 10” Lathe Cut Vinyl with Sheffield’s Do It Thissen Record Label, and deliberately scheduled to fit in with Bamdcamps first Friday of the month offers – do yourselves a favour, right? From the EP we’re delighted to …
ALBUM REVIEW: Fair Mothers – ‘In Monochrome’: marrow-deep dark-folk truth and nuance
THE OCCULT poet, painter and writer Ithell Colqohoun advanced the premise in her book, The Living Stones of Cornwall, that your local geology births you as much as nurture and nature. She felt that the granite of West Cornwall gave rise to a certain hardened, otherworldly, stoicism. And you can see a certain geology at …
Track: Decoration Day release the beautiful folk of Sadness in Disguise
Out on September 18th is Makeshift Future, the debut album from Toronto folk band Decoration Day and from it the band has released a new single, Sadness in Disguise. “I began writing Sadness in Disguise during a period of depression, and finished it in the midst of deep grief for a loved one dying,” explains multi-instrumentalist Tiffany Wu. “During …
SEE: Siv Jakobsen – ‘A Feeling Felt Or A Feeling Made’: folk as delicate as a bee’s wing
NORWEGIAN folk auteur Siv Jakobsen is possessed of this tremendous, fragile voice which also has astonishing power. Today she has released a video for the beautiful, lamenting delicacy of “A Feeling Felt Or A Feeling Made”, in which she explores the way we react emotionally; are we true with our feelings, or do we sometimes …
Track: Ben Harper And Rhiannon Giddens reveal Nick Drake cover ‘Black Eyed Dog’
Two of Blues / Folk / Americana’s standouts, Ben Harper and Rhiannon Giddens have collaborated together for the first time on their own version of Nick Drake’s ‘Black Eyed Dog’. “Rhiannon and I are both black purveyors of American roots music, and while this is not an anomaly, it is an exception within a subculture,” …
Track: Joshua Burnside Returns With A Hypnotic Single ‘And You Evade Him/Born in the Blood’
Three years after the release of his award-winning debut album ‘Ephrata’, Joshua Burnside has returned to announce the release of his follow up album ‘Into The Depths Of Hell’ due 4th of September. An absurdist examination at the suffering humans inflicts on each other every day and the innate human condition that demands we find …
EP REVIEW: Devendra Banhart – ‘Vast Ovoid’: bursting with ideas
DEVENDRA BANHART was one of the main beneficiaries of the American acid-folk explosion just after the turn of the century. He came in as part of that movement with bands like Vetiver and Espers and became almost the George Best of the movement: piratically handsome with that dusky hair and huge hoop earrings, a brace …