singer-songwriter
Not Forgotten: Leonard Cohen – I’m Your Man
It shouldn’t work. It should have been a complete and utter dud. Of the old guard of the 60s and 70s, almost no one had made the hard synthetic production techniques of the 80s work for them. Sure, a few had maintained a certain level of commercial success, but at what cost to their integrity? …
See: Glen Hansard reveals new video for Roll on Slow, plus European Tour Dates
Sometime Frames and Swell Seasons man Glen Hansard has returned with a new album, Between Two Shores, which dropped last Friday (January 19th) on Anti-. From it he’s revealed a new video for the albums opening track ‘Roll on Slow’. It’s a mixup of folk rock and brass heavy soul, akin in a way to …
Track: Josh Rouse – Businessman
A year touring his critically acclaimed eleventh album, The Embers of Time, saw acclaimed singer songwriter Josh Rouse hanker for a change. “Coming off such a heavy record, I wanted to try something different,” he explains. “I wanted to explore new sounds and write with a fresh backdrop.” He’s certainly done that with his new …
Track: Mélissa Laveaux – Nan Fon Bwa
Inspired by a trip to her parents to her parents homeland Haiti, Nan Fon Bwa is a new song taken from Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist Mélissa Laveaux. It comes from a digital EP which drops on 2nd February and is about celebration and is a reworking of Frantz Casséus’ original composition. The EP is to …
Live Review: Richard Thompson / Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker Sheffield City Hall, 25.10.2017
Opening for an act like Richard Thompson, a man who has been at the forefront of the folk rock movement for five decades now, could easily overwhelm the unprepared. Luckily, with five albums already under their belt, and a wealth of good (and bad!) touring experience, Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker know what they are …
Track: Vince James – The Man I Want to Be
Welsh singer songwriter Vince James has a new single out today, The Man I want to be, and it has a real significance personally for James. As he explains “I wrote the song for my Grandad, it was to celebrate his 80th Birthday. I was listening to a lot of Jake Bugg’s first album at …
Album Review: Randy Newman – Dark Matter
Back in 2004 Green Day released American Idiot, an album on which they took the American government of the time to task for the less than wise decisions that were being made. Wind forward thirteen years, and frankly we need something a little more substantial than a pop-punk power trio to take the current American …
Album Review: Richard Thompson – Acoustic Classics II
Richard Thompson has been performing his particular brand of folk rock for the best part of five decades now, and his career has seen him regularly release critically acclaimed albums. Initially a founder member of Fairport Convention, he recorded a string of much celebrated albums with his then wife Linda throughout the 70s, and he …
News: Tom Chaplin heads out on 14 date UK & Ireland May tour
If you’ve checked out his new album, ‘The Wave’, and let’s face it, after debuting at number three in the UK Album Chart last Friday plenty of people have, pop/indie troubadour Tom Chaplin has announced a 14 date UK & Ireland tour, Starting at Cardiff, St David’s Hall on Saturday May 6th, and including a …
Tracks: Jenny Hval – Period Piece
Norwegian singer-songwriter Jenny Hval continues to plough her left-field approach in the lead up to her new album Blood Bitch, out via Sacred Bones on September 30th, with a new single Period Piece also available through the Adult Swim Singles Program for free download (head over to AdultSwim.com/singles). Period Piece shuffles forward and back, blurring …