Folk
News: Derbyshire’s lovely Haiku Salut announce a spectrally concerned new album for August; watch a short making-of doc
MOVING away from their recent investigations of the film score, which includes their last full album proper, 2019’s The General, a score for Buster Keaton’s 1926 early slapstick comedy classic, and two short film commissions last year, Derbyshire’s completely gorgeous (fan? Moi?) post-folk trio Haiku Salut have announced they’re releasing their fifth album in August …
See: The home studio video for the acoustic warmth of Yuma Abe’s ‘Omeamo’
WE’VE thrilled to the stream of Japanese psych bands that have been melting our heads over the past few decades – Acid Mothers Temple, Ghost, Bo Ningen, Kikagaku Moyo; embraced fully and irrevocably Japanese ambient formalism, in the shape of Ryuichi Sakamoto, Chihei Hatekeyama, et al. Perhaps it’s time we drew back from the exploratory …
Premiere: tunnel traffic returns with the beautiful evocative track ‘Next To Me’, plus announces new album ‘Take My Power’
We are very honoured to premiere the first music in over eighteen months from the glorious tunnel traffic , and it is a welcome return. Sidelined by the horror show of 2020, tunnel traffic – essentially the solo work of Adam Hachey – has released a very personal and imperious track ‘Next To Me’: an …
Track: Happy Axe spins gossamer chamber-folk delight with ‘One Morning’ – there’s even a musical saw
HAPPY AXE is the gossamer-delicate, intimately confessional dream-folk project of Canberra-born, Melbourne-based Emma Kelly, who’ll be releasing her second album, Maybe It’ll Be Beautiful, early in July. And she’s been kind enough to share a delicate gem from that, her second album; “One Morning” is whispery with reverb, processes through the secret garden on fragile …
Album Review: Sturt Avenue’s debut album ‘How Do You Think It Should Be?’ delivers a special kind of indie-folk from its homegrown heart
South Australian band Sturt Avenue are set to release their debut album ‘How Do You Think It Should Be?’ next Friday, 4 June. Having already released 4 of the tracks as singles, the complete album has been long-anticipated. Based in Adelaide, the folk music collective is led by SCALA award-winning singer/songwriter Bryn Soden and supported by a …
Tracks: Luke M de Zilva – ‘Even Now’/’Levelled’: lonesome and cathartic songcraft announces a major Sydney talent
LUKE M de Zilva is a Sydney songwriter who’s just stepped out into music under his own name for the first time; and he’s taking his debutante’s bow with a brace of tracks that will pretty much blow you away. His thing is a quiet, rootsy devastation that, from that first, profoundly bassy and announcing …
Track: Thallo’s ‘Pressed And Preserved’ is a chamber-folk lovely, warmed with woodwind
WITH acclaim for her last single, the elemental, soul-in-free-flight expressive “The Water”, garnering attention from across the board, earning playlisting on both Radio 1 and Radio 6 Music, Welsh chamber-folk singer Thallo has returned to maze us further with a new single, “Pressed And Preserved”. Rich with woodwind a gathered company of acoustic nuance, it …
See: Fuzzy Lights – ‘Under The Waves’: returning Cambridge folk-rockers add some feedback fire to the blend
HAILING from Cambridge with a potent elixir of acid/post-folk, Fuzzy Lights are moving towards the release of their first full-length set in more than eight years with the full-on drone-psych pastoralism of their new single, “Under The Waves”; the video for which we have right here. It’s the second teaser the fenlands five-piece have revealed …
Track: Melbourne’s Maple Glider releases the fragile and beautiful ‘Baby Tiger’ and announces news of debut album ‘To Enjoy Is The Only Thing’
Melbournian Maple Glider ( the artist Tori Zietsch) has announced the release of her debut album ‘To Enjoy is The Only Thing’ out on 25 June 2021 through Partisan Records and has unveiled the single ‘Baby Tiger’ in anticipation. ‘Baby Tiger’ is fragile and beautiful: Glider’s voice a delicate whisper across a simple acoustic guitar …
Track: Faye Webster shares title track and video from new album ‘I Know I’m Funny, Haha’ out 25 June
Faye Webster’s latest track release ‘I Know I’m Funny haha’ is the artist’s fourth single (following ‘Cheers’, ‘Better Distractions’ & ‘In A Good Way’) as well as title track from her eagerly anticipated new album, which will be out on 25 June via Secretly Canadian. Webster says of the song: “It went from being a …