If there’s one record we’ve heard recently that’s seriously liable to wrench your heart asunder, it has to be Slow Skies‘ Close EP. The Dublin-based trio – fronted by vocalist Karen Sheridan, alongside producer Conal Herron, and guitarist Patrick O’Laoghaire – ply their trade in modernity-tinged, ambient folk: a …
When you come from a famous family, there’s no doubt the pressures of releasing a debut album into the public sphere are bound to be tenfold: when that family involves the Birkins and the Gainsbourgs, it’s even greater. Here, Lou Doillon tells Alex Cull about the deep sense of personality …
Back in March our online editor Seb Law toodled off to Texas to the musical extravaganza that is South by Southwest and while he was there he met up with folk-pop musician Lucy Rose to chat about everything from the experience performing at one of the biggest music festivals around …
With Nick Drake’s self-titled record – a US-only compilation of tracks from the much-revered British folkie’s first two albums, Five Leaves Left and Bryter Layter – getting a Record Store Day reissue this weekend, Alex Cull acknowledges the legacy of what could be Drake’s most influential release: 1970’s Bryter …
If you have seen Patrick Wolf before you probably think you know what to expect, but the chameleon-like performer never delivers the same show twice. Saturday night saw another chapter - probably his most reflective in the colourful tale so far – in a place frequently referenced in this open-ended …
Drum roll please. More secrets have been revealed.
Secret Garden Party have just unveiled a whole host of new acts for their 2013 festival leading with a UK exclusive performance by Regina Spektor. She performed back when she was a new name on the scene in 2005 and has …
James Yuill has been the thinking man’s pop-crumpet for quite some time, creating diverse albums of folk-influenced pop, and his new offering These Spirits is no different. So deftly creating music in that ever so difficult echelon of ‘credible pop’, Yuill’s third album is a well-mastered symphony of 80s’ synths …
Ahead of the expanded UK release of their debut EP Nightworks next month, we caught up with Caught a Ghost founder Jesse Nolan for a chat about his roots-infused troupe’s – whose membership can swell to up to nine members live - wonderful repurposing of the past. We’re also delighted …
Front man Ian Ray and a few of his friends make up Cambridgeshire band Straw Bear; an alt-country folk band with a playful psychedelic twist.
Since the release of their ambitious debut album Victims of the Engineers back in 2007, there has been a slow but steady buzz surrounding …
‘Into the Wild‘, the first track unveiled from Lewis Watson‘s forthcoming third EP, The Wild, stands proudly as one of the 20 year-old singer-songwriter’s most fully realised and potent indie-folk songs yet. It’s dominated by hymnal chants, rousing choruses and Watson’s whispered confessionals, all of which …
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