Folk
Track: Sowulo – Æt wega ġelætan
Nordic dark folk artist Sowulo has shared the 3rd single from his upcoming new album ‘Wurdiz’ which will be released on 9th September via By Norse. Sowulo was formed by multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer Faber Horbach Regarding the track Horbach comments: “Æt wega ġelætan” is a powerful song about crossroads and choices. Faber Horbach comments: “Whenever fate is pulling you …
Track: Melbourne’s Georgia Knight shares the wonderfully dark and deep-rooted discord of ‘Visualiser’ from forthcoming EP ‘Hell on Bent Street’: Playing Dark MOFO on 11 June
Cheersquad Records & Tapes are excited to announce Georgia Knight’s first single, Visualiser, from the Melbourne musician’s forthcoming debut EP, ‘Hell on Bent Street’. Available digitally right now, the track comes ahead of Georgia’s appearance at Dark MOFO next Saturday 11 June, with a guest appearance also coming up on Hugo Race’s new album ‘Once …
Track: Beth Orton releases new track ‘Weather Alive’ with album to follow
Beth Orton returns with a new track and album after an absence of six years.
Review: Wallis Bird’s ‘Hands’ is a Deeply Personal Album with Universal Themes
Wallis Bird’s ‘Hands’ is a deeply personal album with universal themes of love, understanding and compassion.
Album Review: José Medeles – Railroad Cadences & Melancholic Anthems : a stunning ‘tribute’ to John Fahey’s musical spirit.
So what do you make of tribute albums? Are they places to be seen, a rag bag of cover versions by a bunch of people who have nothing in common except convenient admiration? Well ‘Railroad Cadences & Melancholic Anthems’ by José Medeles may pay homage to John Fahey but there’s a gulf between this album …
Track: Toronto’s perfect Housewife (fka Moscow Apartment) are back with the shimmering track ‘Patrick Bateman’.
Due to unfortunate connotations, the brilliant duo Moscow Apartment who released, in my opinion, one of the most outstanding albums of 2020, the EP ‘Better Daughter’ (reviewed by me here), have decided to change their name and reemerge as Housewife – a somewhat delicious irony given their strong feminist stance (they proudly call themselves ‘opinionated …
Album Review: HIGH ACE to Unveil Stunning Debut Album Release “Snowcap Menace”
Every now and then, a full-length LP/CD comes along that stops you dead in your tracks. Snowcap Menace is unmistakably one such album. The brainchild of Australian folk-rock husband & wife duo, Jeff Lang and Alison Ferrier, Snowcap Menace is a virtual cornucopia of the pair’s musical influences and varying styles, ranging from blues, ethno-folk …
Track: Sowulo – Stearcost Ealra
Nordic Dark Folk artist Sowulo has shared the second single and lyric video for “Stearcost Ealra”, taken from his upcoming new studio album “Wurdiz”, due 9th September via By Norse Music. ‘Stearcost Ealra’ is a powerful song about fate and destiny, and how both notions are the strongest of all. Faber Horbach comments: ‘Do not fight, …
Live Review: Siobhan Miller – The Greystones, Sheffield 08.05.2022
Siobhan Miller arrived at the Greystones at the end of a warm spring weekend in Sheffield as part of her Anglo/Scottish tour; see LIVE | Siobhan Miller. What could be better on a Sunday evening than a couple of locally produced cold beers and some great imported Live music! The packed ‘BacKroom’ needed no warming up …
News: The Pierce Brothers unveil the stately and anthemic single ‘When It All Goes Away’ ahead of European tour and EP news.
There is no better proponents of a unique and distinctive style of energised indie folk rock than the Pierce Brothers, and their new single ‘When It All Goes Away’ reveals another more sultry and slow burning side that infuses indelible pop melodies with a sense of yearning and loss. Jack Pierce says of the track: …