Folk
EP Review : Katherine Priddy – Wolf
Singer-Songwriter Katherine Priddy has already had an amount of success with her self recorded and self-produced “Old Tree Sessions” series of CDs. Now she releases a studio recording… Wolf is an EP of 4 original tracks, departing from the Old Tree Session cover tracks. A familiar presence at Moseley Folk Festival and local folk gigs in Birmingham, …
Album Review: Jethro Tull – 50 for 50
50 for 50 is the new 3CD career-spanning collection released to celebrate 50 years of Jethro Tull, and I just so happen to be a big Jethro Tull fan. But I just don’t ‘get’ it. Tull’s 20th anniversary in 1988 was marked by a tour, a TV documentary, and a lavishly packaged 3CD box set …
Not Forgotten: Jethro Tull – A Passion Play
Jethro Tull had made their point with Thick as a Brick. Progressive rock simply didn’t have to be overblown and pompous, it could be cheeky, subversive, and (dare I say it) fun. Having successfully lampooned the genre with stunning results resulting in an album which was far better than the majority who took this sort …
Not Forgotten: Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
Rising slowly over the horizon of a fractured, but ever evolving modern music scene in 2008, The Fleet Foxes self-titled debut didn’t so much dazzle, as glow warmly, encouraging you to bask in its radiance as it did so. While all this had been done before (their enthusiastically reckless use of reverb recalls My Morning …
Track: LUMP – May I Be The Light
Coinciding with the release of their debut album (eponymously titled), and fresh from the requisite ‘Later…’ performance, Lump release their third and last single from the LP. ‘May I Be The Light’ is a beguiling listen, running through three phases: the childlike plink and detached vocals of the verse, the electronic shudder that underpins the …
Not Forgotten: José Feliciano – Feliciano!
There have been numerous times in the history of popular song when quiet has proved to be the new the new loud, in fact it is something that happens so frequently, that every few years a new generation manages to discover the singular delights of José Feliciano, and this pleasant album of acoustic covers of …
Track: Ferris and Sylvester release Waterloo Sunset (live) + Tour Dates
Ahead of their myriad festival appearances this summer, London duo Ferris and Sylvester have officially released their live cover of Waterloo Sunset following its reception on BBC Radio 2 : It’s an effective duet, drifting in with a gentle opening, contrasting with more robust driving rhythm as it picks up pace throughout, almost an opposite …
See: Sam Evian shares new video for ‘You, Forever’, plus UK tour dates
Sam Evian — AKA New York-based musician, songwriter, and producer Sam Owens — will release his new album You, Forever on 1st June 2018 via Saddle Creek. Following the release of lead single “Health Machine” and album opener “IDGAF”, today Sam presents two new songs: the fleeting, nimble driving “Country” and slow burning “You Forever” …
Album Review: Modern Studies – Welcome Strangers
Modern Studies’ first album was a lovely pastoral piece of folk-pop, built up around the sound of an old harmonium. Since then seemingly every hipster-Adam-Boyle-type has got themsleves a harmonium, and so it’s good to hear Modern Studies filling out their sound more. The vibe is still relatively downbeat, but trombones and strings are more …
See: The Mighty Mighty Bosstones reveal new video for Wonderful Day for the Race
Ahead of their tenth studio album While We’re At It, mixed by Grammy ward winning producer Ted Hutt (Flogging Molly, Dropkick Murphys, Lucero, The Bouncing Souls, The Gaslight Anthem), ska punks The Mighty Mighty BossToneS have revealed the first track to be released from it, Wonderful Day for the Race, with vocalist Dicky Barrett saying …