Every generation of the Collins family has been carved from the hills of the South Downs, and it is those hills that act as a silent partner and accompaniment for Archangel Hill, the third album that folk queen Shirley Collins has made for Domino Records, since her return to making music after a 40 year gap with...
Residing in a neighborhood where Captain Beefheart and 70s AM radio not only coexist but share the same turntable, Tim Rutili’s band Califone examines the strange landscape of villagers. It is, to say the least, an interesting trip, one where musique concrète coexists with the music of Marin County. Wrapping one’s head around Califone requires a different way...
Ghosts seem to haunt every second of Hannah Rose Platt’s Deathbed Confessions. Inhabiting a widescreen wonderland, Platt creates a landscape filled with both the horror and humor that haunts listeners. Her voice, a surprisingly flexible instrument, shades these recordings in ways that bring out the competing emotions in play. Her narratives, both surreal and sentimental, engage and...
Ceremony seems to suggest formality, yet Tiny Ruins new album is far less formal than the title suggests. Hollie Fullbrook wrote the album during walks with her dogs along the turbulent landscape of “Old Murky” – Tāmaki Makaurau’s (aka Auckland’s) Manukau Harbour. This stretch of land, from the polluted, treacherous harbor to the peaceful inlets and tidal...
The spellbinding NYC-based songstress Rachael Sage has returned once again to grace us with her latest delicate and profound single ‘Whistle Blow’. In this musical landscape, Sage navigates through murky territories of power dynamics and boundaries, exploring the aftermath of several high-profile figures’ ignominious falls from grace. With an unflinching gaze, Sage delivers a stirring ode to...
“Sometimes these are the best dreams I’ve ever had/Like a sparkle of crystals in the palm of my hand”. From the opening lines of Arborist’s third album, we are welcomed into a world observed from a different angle. Arborist, aka Mark McCambridge, began his live career by supporting James Yorkston and has never really looked back, following that impressive...
Esther Rose has lived a bit of a nomadic existence, and now living in Santa Fe, after stays in Columbiaville, Michigan; and New Orleans, Safe to Run suggests that trading places has had a certain appeal. It’s as if she is one of those artists that seems to find a kind of comfort in a more transitory...
Lucy Farrell has been a name on the English folk circuit for a number of years, duetting with Jonny Kearney for a while and gaining acclaim in supporting slots or the likes of The Unthanks and Bellowhead. After winning the best duo award at 2010 Radio 2 Folk Awards and releasing the wonderful studio album Kite a...
Sometimes things just don’t fit. Angel Olsen had that problem with ‘Nothing’s Free’, the first track from her new EP, Forever Means. Soulful in a way that the other songs on Big Time weren’t, it became obvious it wouldn’t make the cut for that album, yet it is by no means a lesser track. Coming from a...
“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there” So begins L.P. Hartley’s 1953 novel The Go-Between, but it could easily apply to this wondrous reclamation of a past that had almost been considered lost forever. The story is a well-told one but worth retelling in crib note form. Back in 2021, amongst a plethora...
Ketch Secor, the leader of Old Crow Medicine Show, takes a stroll down one of Nashville’s most out-to-get-ya streets...
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