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Track: Callum Easter releases new song – Tell em Boy
Scottish singer-songwriter Callum Easter has followed up news of his new album – Green Door Sessions, out on 21st August on Moshi Moshi, with a new track taken from it ‘Tell em Boy’. Of the process the album took, Easter says “The premise was to record the versions of the songs I’d been performing live …
Track: Decoration Day release the beautiful folk of Sadness in Disguise
Out on September 18th is Makeshift Future, the debut album from Toronto folk band Decoration Day and from it the band has released a new single, Sadness in Disguise. “I began writing Sadness in Disguise during a period of depression, and finished it in the midst of deep grief for a loved one dying,” explains multi-instrumentalist Tiffany Wu. “During …
Track: Ben Harper And Rhiannon Giddens reveal Nick Drake cover ‘Black Eyed Dog’
Two of Blues / Folk / Americana’s standouts, Ben Harper and Rhiannon Giddens have collaborated together for the first time on their own version of Nick Drake’s ‘Black Eyed Dog’. “Rhiannon and I are both black purveyors of American roots music, and while this is not an anomaly, it is an exception within a subculture,” …
Daniel Blumberg releases three new tracks ahead of album
Daniel Blumberg’s 2018 release ‘Minus’ never drew the recognition it deserved. A profound record of late Scott Walkeresque scale with songs balanced on an improvisational high wire, it was a massive leap from the indie noise gaze of his former bands Cajun Dance Party and Yuck. Now Blumberg is offering the next instalment of his …
Track Toronto indie folk band Decoration Day release ‘Lanark County’
Taken from their forthcoming debut album Makeshift Future, Toronto folk band Decoration Day have released a new single, Lanark County. It’s described by guitarist and songwriter Justin Orok as a vision song. “It follows a kind of surreal dream logic,” says Justin. “The imagery comes out of this just-below-the-surface hostility I would feel when visiting idyllic …
Track: Allegra Krieger – Welcome
Taken from her forthcoming ‘The Joys of Forgetting’ album, out on August 7th via Northern Spy Records is ‘Welcome’, the new single from Brooklyn singer-songwriter Allegra Kreiger. If the track, Krieger explains: “Welcome is about opening your life up to someone and letting defenses down. Learning to live with & love them through good & bad.” Rustic and …
See: Catholic Guilt sign to Wiretrap Records and release new track Song Of The Renter
Signing to California based Wiretap Records recently, Catholic Guilt have now upped their street cred and are set to be one to watch for the end of 2020 and into 2021. Their new EP ‘This is What Honesty Sounds Like’ will be out this August through Wiretap, and will herald a world beating partnership. With …
See: Woahnows frontman Immy reveals new video for Anyone, Anywhere
Sometime lead singer / writer of Woahnows, Immy, has released new video of his track ‘Anyone, Anywhere’. The Bristol musician had first donated the track to his label Breakfast Records compilation record which was to raise money for his hometown charity Caring In Bristol, but now he’s made a video with housemate Jonathan Minto of …
Track: Riun Garner – Fabric
Out right now is Fabric, the new single from Canadian singer-songwriter Riun Garner. It’s the follow up to his much lauded debut single Trouble that saw him gain not just the interest of music fans, but of the organisers of the 2020 Canadian Songwriter Challenge, who promptly signed him up. Of the song, Garner says …
Meet: Scottish singer-songwriter Dylan John Thomas
We were very much taken with Glaswegian singer-songwriter Dylan John Thomas’ recent Lost Without single, and after reading that he’s been taken on tour as support for both Liam Gallagher and Gerry Cinnamon, and becoming the quickest Scottish artist to sell-out his debut show at the revered King Tuts venue, we felt like we needed …