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Track and EP News: Tommy Ashby and Lydia Clowes – Happy Just to Know

Tommy Ashby and Lydia Clowes press shot.

Scottish singer-songwriter, Tommy Ashby has released his duet with Lydia Clowes, ‘Happy Just To Know’. It’s out via Wow & Flutter Records and is the first single from his new…

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Track: Loney Dear – ‘Oppenheimer’; the atomic age examined delicately in falsetto and solo piano

LONEY DEAR is the wholly unusual solo vision of Emil Svanängen, part of the stable of talent over at Peter Gabriel’s Real World imprint, with a curiously timeless and very intelligent take…

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News: Nordic country singer Louien will release an EP in June; hear a first track, ‘Better Woman’

LOUIEN we touched base with just a matter of days back, in an ensemble sense, when she lined up alongside Siv Jakobsen and The Northern Belle for the Nordicana loveliness…

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Track: Roddy Woomble to release a new solo album in May; hear a first single, ‘Lo Soul’; there’s tour dates, too

FORMER Idlewild man turned solo songcrafter of considerable talent, Roddy Woomble has finally turned his hand to a follow-up to 2017’s The Deluder; he’ll be releasing his new album, Lo!…

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News: New Model Army’s Justin Sullivan announces May solo set; hear the stark storytelling of ‘Amundsen’

NEWS which will delight members of the Militia worldwide: Justin Sullivan, founder of Bradford post-punk legends New Model Army, fierce social advocate and commentator, has announced he’ll be releasing only…

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See: Jordan Klassen – ‘Golden Ladder’: hushed Canadian alt.folk songcraft

VANCOUVER’S self-styled fairy-folk singer-songwriter Jordan Klassen released an album, Tell Me What to Do, last May, which he hopes connects people organically, drawing upon their shared experiences lyrically and conceptually;…

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See: Conchúr White – ‘Vocation Vacation’: keeping one’s online life polished in a late-night tumblin’ tune

OUT OF Armagh with a swingin noir take on songwriting which seems to combine late-night whisky tumbler tunesmithery with, in the case of the single he’s dropping today, a little…

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Track: John Smith – ‘Hold On’: a plea to stay hoping with The Staves’ Jessica

AT LEAST once in recent times, Essex-born, Devon-raised folk troubadour John Smith has received the epithet “the guitarists’ guitarist”. And with a CV like his, you couldn’t argue; as a…

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Track: Ted Barnes feat. Michael Clarke – ‘Way Beyond This’: a delicate acoustic tune telling of the moment your lover leaves

YOU MAY or may not have been blessed enough to have swooned for Clayhill, the cruelly underrated trio who got lumped into the semi-trendy genre ‘The New Acoustic’ by the…

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Track: Chloe Foy – ‘Left-Centred Weight’: luscious, hook-laden folk to welcome spring

AS 2021 stretches and tentatively decides to dangle an experimental leg out of bed you, like me, will be looking round for the first buds and flowers of spring; new…

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