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SEE: Ailsa Tully – ‘Parasite’: a bass-led tune with masked lyrical steel

HAILING from Welsh border country, Ailsa Tully is a singer-songwriter whose instrument of choice, the bass, brings a new slant to the crowded sphere of singer-songwriting. We fell pretty hard…

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NEWS: Cheval Sombre announces February album for Sonic Cathedral

CHRIS PORPORA makes very, very beautiful and hushed music as Cheval Sombre – and makes it very much at his own pace; he is, as we shall see, very much…

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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: 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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TRACK: Strictly Elizabeth announces her Full Moon series with a versioning of ‘Dogs And Traps’

STRICTLY ELIZABETH has announced a new series of calendrical song drops to take us all the way through 2021 in lunar company, as she launches her Full Moon Series with…

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SEE: The video for the souljazz noir of Madison McFerrin’s ‘Hindsight’

COOL-AS Brooklyn imprint Mexican Summer, which has played host to artists such as Oneohtrix Point Never and Best Coast, has been running a lovely diversion from all the nutsness this…

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TRACK: Kathryn Williams & Carol Ann Duffy – ‘Snow Angel’: collaborative Christmas sweetness

THE MERCURY-nominated Liverpudlian singer-songwriter who’s dear to our hearts, Kathryn Williams, has teamed up with poet and playwright Carol Ann Duffy for a two-handed seasonal single, “Snow Angel”, out now…

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Willie J Healey – ‘Merry Christmas’: seasonal songcraft to end the year

OXFORDSHIRE songsmith and former amateur boxing champion Willie J Healey is finishing a year of deserved musical resurgence on a seasonal note, as he drops the classicism of “Merry Christmas”…

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SEE: Arlo Parks – ‘Caroline’: extra UK dates for next summer

MAY WE talk of one of the artists to properly keep an eye on in ’21? We may? Excellent. Arlo Parks grew up in South-West London, a self-confessed tomboy, super-sensitive,…

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SEE: Cheval Sombre returns with the hazy hush of ‘It’s Not Time’

HE’S BEEN away from our ears as a solo artist for what? Crikey it’s actually eight years now, how the egg-timer sands run; but Chris Porpora, who guises up for…

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