folk tracks
Track: Cosmo Sheldrake – Wriggle, plus European tour dates
London singer-songwriter, composer and multi-instrumentalist Cosmo Sheldrake has released the latest track, Wriggle, to be taken from his much-anticipated debut album, The Much Much How How and I, which drops on Friday 6th April via Transgressive Records. Speaking of the track, Cosmo says “Wriggle is the last song I wrote for the album. It emerged …
Track: Fairhazel – 7×7
Out now on the Communion Singles Club, is the debut single from Fairhazel, aka London-based musical nomad Hugh McDonald, titled 7×7. Growing up in Cape Town, London and Paris, and spending time in the USA attending Boston’s prestigious Berklee College of Music, might have formed him as a person, but its London where his project …
Track: P.J. Harvey and Harry Escott – An Acre of Land
The legendary musician, songwriter, artist and poet, P.J. Harvey, has just released a collaboration with British composer Harry Escott called ‘An Acre of Land’, the theme to mystery/thriller Dark River, the latest film by Director Clio Barnard. It is a gorgeous folk-tinged lament that showcases Harvey’s haunting vocals and expressive lyrics over delicate tendrils of …
Track: Dean Ween Group – Don’t Let the Moon Catch you Crying
Dean Ween is set to release his second solo album ‘Rock2’ via Schnitzel Records on April 27th 2018, available on limited edition 180 gram colored vinyl with gatefold sleeve, specially colored CD in digi-pac format and via digital retailers and streaming services. He’s issued a lengthy backstory on the album “A lot has changed since …
Track: The Hanging Stars – On a Sweet Summer’s Day
“On A Sweet Summer’s Day” is the new single to be taken from cosmic folk outfit The Hanging Stars’ forthcoming album Songs For Somewhere Else, due out on 9 February 2018 on Crimson Crow. The band have also announced some live dates, including a London album launch at The Victoria in Hackney on 22 February. …
See: Holy Moly & The Crackers release new video for ‘Let Go’, plus November tour dates
‘Let Go’ is the new single off Holy Moly & The Crackers’ recently release album, Salem. ‘Let Go’. The North East gypsy folk outfit go in heavy on the record with some full on soulful vocals from Ruth Patterson, and its supported by crunchy guitar chords, fiddles, accordians and percussion building the tension and expectation …
EP Review: Spirit of Play – Apocalypse EP
Smart, literate and good natured, Spirit of Play’s new EP is shot-through with the book-smarts and approachability you might expect from a four piece band consisting of employees of the Times Literary Supplement. While you’d be right in not expecting visceral rock and roll thrills from such a self-confessed geeky group, the uncharacteristically aggressive Apocalypse …
Track: Joe Innes and the Cavalcade – Little Rabbit
Ever think that pop needs more politics? Joe Innes and the Cavalcade are back with their 2nd single, “Little Rabbit”, and a sound that the band are calling “Post-Brexit Indie”. An intriguing blend of cynicism backed with a jaunty beat, and an insanely catchy trumpet hook: “Who gets a pension, who gets detention? we’ll let the …
Track: Alexander Wolfe – I can’t get to sleep
By Pete Wilding Alexander Wolfe has really dig deep for the first teaser from his yet-to-be announced fourth solo album, a raw but thoroughly engaging testimony of the debilitating effects of depression. If that sounds, well, a little depressing, Wolfe manages a kind of musical oxymoron – the difficult, important subject matter leavened by an …
Track: Jesse Jo Stark – Driftwood
With the combination of a peacefully constructed composition and lyrics that show elements of a country inspired noir tale; ‘Driftwood’ by Jesse Jo Stark is an equally haunting and captivating song to listen to. Wonderfully performed with an excellent use of subtlety, it focuses on telling its story through an almost euphoric haze that feels …