I first stumbled upon Mali Velasquez by chance, taken in by her album art. It was a painting of three figures, two adults and a child between them, coloured in the yellows, pinks, and browns of an old family photograph. When I pressed play the song that followed felt like a continuation of the image, the shaking...
Recently struggling to sleep, I turned to Convocations – Sufjan Stevens’ 2021 49-track instrumental album, written in the wake of his father’s death. I was taken aback by this subtly inventive two-and-a-half hour, five-part song cycle. It came only one record (2020’s technicolour The Ascension) after 2015’s spartan Carrie & Lowell, which ruminated on the passing of...
The music of Jack Cooper’s current band Modern Nature bears little resemblance to the music he made as half of Ultimate Painting. There really is no standard path that leads from there to No Fixed Point In Space. The shift in direction over the last few years has been seismic, a point that can be made perfectly...
Fires crackling, a warm breeze tangling through your hair, lush green lands, open plains and rolling hills. Tales of love, death, and empowerment, entwined with morals, warnings, and memories. This is what folk music gifts to us and what listeners can expect from Martin Simpson and Thomm Jutz’s new album. Drawing particular inspiration from singers and folklorists...
Having a sense of humour in the music business helps, and Kenny Bates, who trades as Quitter, definitely has one. Which is why his album Monument Road has been credited with being recorded in, “flats, homes, cupboards, bedrooms and burnt old mansion houses.” The settings aren’t luxurious and what emerges is a ramshackle disc that feels like...
For fans of Margo Cilker’s splendid 2021 debut Pohoryville there’s good news. The follow-up to that album, Valley of Heart’s Delight, offers eleven more songs in the same rich musical vein. Acoustic guitar, bass and drums are joined most prominently, as before, by piano, with generous splashes of organ and accordion (all three instruments are played by...
Devendra Banhart is no stranger to anyone who reads these pages. Flying Wig sees the Houston-born musician and songwriter releasing his 11th album into the wild. He is 21 years deep into a recording career and shows no slowing down in the exploration of pushing the boundaries of his sound. Flying Wig is a hypnotic and captivating...
Perennial means to last eternally, to return time and time again with each year, to flower, or to emerge with the seasons. It’s an apt moniker for this new release from Brooklyn psych/folk ensemble Woods, who seem almost organic themselves. Half band, half tree. Starting with ‘The Seed’, this album blooms from layered samples and weaving melody...
It’s hard to mention Buck Meek without also mentioning Big Thief, his critically acclaimed folk group whose shivering melody lines and uncanny lyrical turns have earned them an almost supernatural status amongst fans and critics alike. But this album isn’t about Big Thief, it’s about Buck Meek, and it’s arguably his most lucid and most tender rendering...
Worlds collide on Clementine Valentine’s new album The Coin that Broke the Fountain Floor. Creating a sound that combines synths with guitars and layers of vocals, Clementine and Valentine Nixon construct a hybrid based on song stylings that go back hundreds of years. This hybrid is the result of their isolation during the pandemic on the Coromandel...
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