folk tracks
Track: Skullcrusher – Don’t Show
You must be thinking is it thrash, doom or drone? None of these – Skullcrusher is the project of LA based songwriter Helen Ballentine who makes rich acoustic sounds that lean in the new folk direction. Having shifted from an art college/gallery pathway to focus all her creative energy on music, Ballentine seems to have …
Track: Shirley Collins – Wondrous Love, plus album news.
Shirley Collins is living history. A pioneer who has been exploring the possibilities of folk music right from its second surging UK revival in the 1950’s. Along the way she was a key player in Davy Graham’s mid 60’s jazz folk fusions and then with her sister Dolly, injected authenticity and traditional flavours into the …
See: Teddy Thompson – New tracks, New album, new tour
Amazingly it’s been 20 years since Teddy Thompson delivered his first album. Over the past two decades he’s been carefully honing his craft from folk tinged beginnings to his more recent country style, gradually seeking three- minute pop song perfection. As he admits himself, he is trying to trace that enduring line back to the …
Track: Hayfitz – Hold on
Los Angeles-turned-Brooklyn based multi-instrumentalist Brandon Hafetz goin under the name ‘Hayfitz’ shares his new single ‘Hold On,’ from his upcoming debut album ‘Capsules’, out May 29th. Hayfitz has created a sombre and lonely atmosphere here with his delicate voice that is constantly on the point of breaking. Think Jack Steadway of Bombay Bicycle Club. The addition …
See: Sean Christopher releases new video for Indigo Blue
Dutch singer-songwriter Sean Christopher has returned for the follow up to his much lauded debut album ‘Yonder’, which dropped back in 2018. He’s just released a third single from its follow up ‘Wander’, out on May 29th, called ‘Indigo Blue’. Christopher describes the song, “‘Indigo Blue’ is a song about love and how love can …
Track: Keaton Henson – Career Day
An artist in many forms-illustrator, poet,T-shirt designer,composer and exceptional songwriter – Keaton Henson always brings a sense of devotion to his work. You can feel that dedication and care seeping through his newly released single ‘Career Day’ which is available now via ‘Play It Again Sam’. A song of reflection, sketched by Keaton’s rich guitar …
Track: Sergeant BuzFuz – Theresa McKee, plus new album news
Sheffield punk-folk stalwarts ‘Sergeant BuzFuz’ are gearing up to release a highly anticipated seventh album ‘Fox Pop’ on July 3rd via their DIY label Blang Records It’s been 5 years since the last Sergeant Buzfuz album, 2015’s ‘Balloons For Thin Linda’. Band leader Joe Murphy has lost both parents, got married, been a victim of a smear campaign (as a whistleblowing …
Track: Roly Witherow – Lord Franklin
despite being best known as a successful film and television composer, Roly Witherow has moved the goalposts for his first solo release and recorded an album of traditional folk tunes. The album, Ballads and Yarns is out now and from it he’s released his version of Lord Franklin, perhaps best known in its Pentangle version. …
Track: Meadow Meadow – Bonzo
Meadow Meadow are a collaborative project between Peter Darlington and James Green, split between Manchester and London. They’ve released their debut single Bonzo, via Practise Music. Peter says of the track Peter on the track: “Bonzo was the first song we wrote together that we felt captured the direction of where we wanted to go creatively. …
Track: Hayfitz – I want
Out on May 29th is the new album from NYC-based indie folk artist Hayfitz, Capsules, is released and ahead of that he’s shared a new single ‘I want’, taken from it that encapsulates the indie-folk sound of Jónsi, Jose Gonzales, Kings of Convenience and the like. Light and ethereal, I want takes you somewhere quiet …