Folk
SEE: Adam Stafford – ‘Erotic Thistle’: a warm and confessional folk fingerpicking gem
FALKIRK’S Adam Stafford is one of them; he’s good at stuff. Grrr. He’s a multi-instrumentalist and film-maker, who necessarily has used the purdah of lockdown to create; for what else are our culture’s guiding lights, the creatives, to do? For him it’s proved a creatively fruitful time that has helped him fashion up an entirely …
SEE: the animated video for the Appalachian loveliness of Sally Anne Morgan’s ‘Garden Song’
SOMETIME Black Twig Picker and half of leftfield roots reshapers House and Land, Sally Anne Morgan has just released the lovely and verdant animation to accompany her “Garden Song”, one of the highlights woven into her debut album as a a solo artist, Thread, which will be out on Thrill Jockey on September 11th (read …
TRACK: Sophie Jamieson – ‘Forward’: confessional folk elegance
SOPHIE JAMIESON took a time-out from her career after a great beginning; and five years away from ‘the biz’ has left her stronger, more aware, ready to slam some finely honed truths into your chest with her EP Release, which is out on December 1st. Debuting aged 22 with her Where EP, which featured fragile …
Track: Alexia Avina – Fit Into Released Through Lost Map’s Postmap Club Subscription.
A brand-new signing to Lost Map Records, Alexia Avina is an American singer-songwriter previously based in Montreal, now living in rural Massachusetts, whose heavenly music is rooted in ambient, folk and dreampop traditions. Alexia’s new single ‘Fit Into’ (b/w ‘Swampy’) is released at the end of July as part of Lost Map’s PostMap Club subscription service. Her new album Unearth will be released on CDR, …
EP Review: Dana Gavanski – ‘Wind Songs’: covers remoulded, lauded, brought into the light
MORPHIC resonance is one of those curious little theories out on the borders of the scientifically credible that nevertheless contain intriguing possibilities. Simply put, it states that once something enters the realms of the possible and probable, it’s infinitely more likely for that idea to begin occurring elsewhere; an illustration is that when comes time …
ALBUM REVIEW: Jeremy Tuplin – ‘Violet Waves’: velvety psych-folk for the discerning gent about town
HUSH up at the back there. Yes, I know you have a deep ennui at the way this virus-laden summer is developing. It’s not great, I agree. And on top of it all, we even suffered Glastonbury weather through June. No, we can’t go get ice cream. We still have music. Glorious, bewitching, mind-expanding music. …
TRACK: Such Small Hands release new single, ‘Do I Belong Here?’
WEDDING PRESENT bassist Melanie Howard, aka Such Small Hands, who blends dark pop with twinges of quirky folk and electronica, has released new single “Do I Belong Here?” The single precedes her new album Carousel, which is due to be released on September 18th via Such Small Records. Having initially released a series of lo-fi …
Premiere: Polyhymns release the beautiful alt-folk of ‘JK’
Sheffield trio Polyhymns are gearing up for the release of their debut EP ‘Hybrid Sunday’, available on Limited Edition 10” Lathe Cut Vinyl with Sheffield’s Do It Thissen Record Label, and deliberately scheduled to fit in with Bamdcamps first Friday of the month offers – do yourselves a favour, right? From the EP we’re delighted to …
ALBUM REVIEW: Fair Mothers – ‘In Monochrome’: marrow-deep dark-folk truth and nuance
THE OCCULT poet, painter and writer Ithell Colqohoun advanced the premise in her book, The Living Stones of Cornwall, that your local geology births you as much as nurture and nature. She felt that the granite of West Cornwall gave rise to a certain hardened, otherworldly, stoicism. And you can see a certain geology at …
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 …