Folk
Track & News: Indie-Folk Sensations The Dreggs Announce UK/EU and Australian Tours in Celebration of Upcoming Album ‘Caught In A Reverie’
Aussie Indie-folk sensations The Dreggs are making waves once again, soaring to new heights with their latest single ‘Peeps with the Goods’ from their eagerly awaited upcoming album ‘Caught In A Reverie’, slated for release next Friday on April 26 (stay tuned for a review!). In celebration, the boys are embarking on a massive 16-date …
Premiere: Geelong singer/songwriter Daisy Kilbourne exclusively unveils debut single, the haunting and ethereal ‘Mother’, along with a poignant documentary.
We are very honoured to exclusively premiere the debut single ‘Mother’ from Geelong-based singer/songwriter Daisy Kilbourne, with an additional link to a short film that that accompanies the exquisite track. Inspired by her own experiences, ‘Mother’ delves into the heart-wrenching journey of witnessing amother’s gradual unravelling after the loss of the love of her life. …
News: Fink Announces First UK Live Dates In Seven Years
For the first time since stepping off stage at London’s Kentish Town Forum in 2017, the original three-man Fink line-up, led by Berlin-based, British singer-songwriter, Fin Greenall, have announced three domestic live dates. As part of a mammoth 36-date international tour, taking in some of Europe’s landmark venues and most historic cities, Fink celebrates this year’s eighth album release face-to-face with fans …
Track: Iron & Wine – Anyone’s Game
Iron & Wine has shared his third single from its forthcoming album ‘Light Verse’, entitled ‘Anyone’s Game’, along with an accompanying stop-motion-styled animated visual directed by Callum Scott-Dyson. The video’s playful nature has an almost Monty Python intro style; Scott-Dyson in explaining his process for the video says: “I used card cutouts in terms of the stop motion …
Track/Video : Post-metal ground-breakers BIG|BRAVE preview the poetic ‘canon: in canon’ from new album ‘A Chaos Of Flowers’
So the release of the Montreal post metal unit BIG|BRAVE’s eighth album ‘A Chaos Of Flowers’ is arcing steadily towards a conclusion (out 19th April via Thrill Jockey Records). This is a band whose momentum is grounded in consideration and integrity, no quick wins, no sell-outs, who’ve evolved their own unique approach to slow core, …
News: Hozier Announces Australian Tour with Second Naarm/Melbourne Show Added
In case you’ve missed the memo, the Irish troubadour, Hozier, is set to grace Australian stages once again, and fans couldn’t be more thrilled. Recently, tickets have been released for his upcoming shows, and due to overwhelming demand, he’s added a second Melbourne performance at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl on Wednesday, November 13. For …
Track: Goblin Band – Widecombe Fair
Along with announcing their debut EP ‘Come Slack Your Horse!’ which is due on the 1st of May via Broadside Hacks Recordings (The New Eves, Milkweed) London Queer Folk Sextet Goblin Band have also shared their new single ‘Widecombe Fair’. Set in a Devon Village which still holds fairs to this day, ‘Widecombe Fair’ bustles …
Track: 9T Antiope – Mount 22
9T Antiope is a Paris-based Iranian duo made up of Nima Aghiani and Sara Bigdeli Shamloo. They have shared their new track ‘Mount 22’, a rhythmic and hypnotic track from their forthcoming album, ‘Horror Vacui’, which is set for release on the 12th of April via American Dreams. Expanding on this further, Aghiani and Shamloo offer: “Spaces and objects might …
Track: Iron & Wine – All in Good Time
Following the release of the first single ‘You Never Know‘, Iron & Wine has shared another track from his upcoming seventh full-length album ‘Light Verse’ due out on 26th April via Sub Pop. ‘All in Good Time’ is a glorious new song in which Fiona Apple lends her voice, written by Sam Beam in the vein of classic call-and-response style duets made …
Album Review: Sheherazaad – Qasr
‘Sheherazaad’ translated in Hindi and Urdu means a “free city” which is at odds to her mini-album, ‘Qasr’, which translates to “castle” or “fortress” in Urdu, it was written during a time of family estrangement, grief over a lost elder, and the racial polarisation of her country as she knew it. “It was maddening” Sheherazaad says, “that the music of my origins …